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R: Data Analysis and Visualization

by Tony Fischetti, Brett Lantz, Jaynal Abedin, Hrishi V. Mittal, Bater Makhabel, Edina Berlinger, Ferenc Illés, Milán Badics, Ádám Banai, Gergely Daróczi, Barbara Dömötör, Gergely Gabler, Dániel Havran, Péter Juhász, István Margitai, Balázs Márkus, Péter Medvegyev, Julia Molnár, Balázs Árpád Szucs, Ágnes Tuza, Tamás Vadász, Kata Váradi, Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
1783 pages
71h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing the mean of one sample

An illustrative and fairly common statistical hypothesis test is the one sample t-test. You use it when you have one sample and you want to test whether that sample likely came from a population by comparing the mean against the known population mean. For this test to work, you have to know the population mean.

In this example, we'll be using R's built-in precip data set that contains precipitation data from 70 US cities.

  > head(precip)
  Mobile    Juneau   Phoenix   Little Rock   Los Angeles   Sacramento
   67.0      54.7      7.0        48.5           14.0        17.2

Don't be fooled by the fact that there are city names in there—this is a regular old vector - it's just that the elements are labeled. We can directly take the mean of this vector, just like a normal ...

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ISBN: 9781786463500