Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Means

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

Two independent samples have very different sample standard deviations.

Group 1 Group 2 Side-by-side comparison

Which two-sample t-procedure is generally recommended?

  • A

    Matched-pairs t

  • B

    Welch's (unpooled) t

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  • C

    Pooled t

  • D

    z-test

Explanation

AP Statistics recommends Welch's (unpooled) two-sample t when variances are unknown or differ.

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