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Oct 2014
17m 3s

[MINI] The T-Test

Kyle Polich
About this episode

The t-test is this week's mini-episode topic. The t-test is a statistical testing procedure used to determine if the mean of two datasets differs by a statistically significant amount. We discuss how a wine manufacturer might apply a t-test to determine if the sweetness, acidity, or some other property of two separate grape vines might differ in a statistically meaningful way.

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https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2014/t-test

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