[R] t.test

[Peter Dalgaard]

matthew5555 wrote:
> Hi, how can I solve a problem without the function t.test???
>
> for example:
> x<-(1,3,5,7)
> y<-(2,4,6)
> t.test(x,y,alternative="less",paired=FALSE,var.equal=TRUE,conf.level=0.95)
>
>
>   
Homework?

Hints: Take out your statistics textbook and look up the formulas for
the two-sample t.
You'll probably (there can be some variation depending on the book) find
that you need to compute

- difference of means
- sd for each group
- pooled sd
- s.e. of differences of means

all of which you can do easily in R, once you have the formulas. Then
calculate the t statistic and the corresponding p value, either using a
table or R's function for the t distibution.

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