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Comparing two means: Independent-samples T test

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Comparing two means: Independent-samples T test

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- [Instructor] One of the most common inferential tests you can do is the independent samples, or two group T tests. It's when you have two groups of people and you want to compare their mean on the same outcome variable. In this example, I'm going to be using this dataset, which is based on the fictional demo.save one and it's a large data set and it tells a whole bunch of information about different things. But you can also tell that it was created a while ago, because among other things, it's asking whether people own fax machines and whether they have pagers. Now this is going to be an interesting one. We can look at this because those are yes/no categories. And why don't we take a look and see if pagers, whether a person in this fictional dataset who has a pager or not, and see if there's any association of that with income. So let's try this by looking at a few different things. Let's start by coming up here to…

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