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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R
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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R

by Radhika Datar, Harish Garg
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
266 pages
5h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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t-test in R

This is also referred to as the student's t-test, which is a method for comparing two samples. It can usually be implemented to determine whether the samples are proper or different. This is considered a parametric test, and the data should be distributed normally.

R can handle the various versions of the t-test using the t.test() command.

The following command is used for our GlassDataset dataset to check the parameters of patients with a specific age range who have undergone a biopsy test:

> t.test(GlassDataset$RI, GlassDataset$Type)Welch Two Sample t-testdata: GlassDataset$RI and GlassDataset$Typet = -8.7756, df = 213, p-value = 5.559e-16alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 095 percent confidence ...
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ISBN: 9781789804379