International A Level Biology / Ecology

Student's t-test

Edexcel International A Level Biology (YBI11), chapter 15: Ecology, specification point A.1.9, A.1.10. Part of the full course.

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Student’s t-test compares the means of two groups to decide whether their difference is likely to be real or due to chance. You calculate t, compare it with a critical value, then explain the result in the context of the data.

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