christopher.mecklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> And as far as using EXCEL's help menus as a stat reference, well EXCEL 2000
> also claims the following about the two-sample t-test: "You can use t-tests
> to determine whether two sample means are equal."
Just in case any students are reading this and don't realise it, Chris is
pointing out that
that statement in Excel is nonsense (so other things it tells you are suspect).
You can
tell when sample means differ just by looking at them. It is for making
inferences about
populations that some people might use t-tests.
Never use Excel help as a source of statistical knowledge! It is worse than
nothing in that
respect.
Glen
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