Is it suitable to use t-test?

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Is it suitable to use t-test?
Message posted by Kathy on July 25, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

I want to test a hypothesis about two independent means. For one sameple size is 19 and the sample sample of the second one is 29. Is the sample size large enough to perform t-test? Thanks for answering.

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Re: Is it suitable to use t-test?
Message posted by Phil on July 25, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Yes. Your sample sizes are fine for a two-sample t-test (independent samples, variance unknown, unequal sample sizes). If you have some software, that would be helpful because calculating the degrees of freedom is somewhat involved.

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