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Comparing paired means: Paired-samples T test

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Comparing paired means: Paired-samples T test

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- [Instructor] People spend a lot of time trying to improve things in their lives. They want to get smarter, they want to develop a new skill, they want to lose weight, they want to get more fit. And in those situations, people are often looking at time one before and time two after. If you want to look at this statistically, you would use a paired t-test. And so for this example, I've got a dataset I just made up with two variables, T1 for time one before and T2 time two after for a group of 30 people. It's fictional data, but you see the change in the scores. Now to get started with this, it's always a good idea to explore your data. I'm going to show you one way to do this using some of the commands we've had previously. So we'll go to Descriptive Statistics and Explore and I'm going to take our two variables and move them over, but we're going to use this command a little bit differently. We're going to get just the…

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