Statistical Significant Difference

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Statistical Significant Difference
Message posted by Cookr on June 29, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

I have 2 data sets. I have calculated a mean for each set. I would like to determine whether or not these two means are statistically, significantly different. What formula do I use?

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Re: Statistical Significant Difference
Message posted by Foo Fighter on June 30, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

try the "independent sample t-test".

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