The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 21 - Comparing Two Means - Check Your Skills - Page 508: 21.19

Answer

a) the two-sample t-test.

Work Step by Step

Two sample Student's t-distribution (or simply the t-distribution) is any member of a family of continuous probability distributions that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and population standard deviation is unknown with data from two independent populations We have two independent populations here females and males.
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