ANOVA or T TEST

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ANOVA or T TEST
Message posted by steve (via 209.86.218.179) on June 20, 2001 at 8:58 PM (ET)

male and female comparisons on 12 measures?

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Re: ANOVA or T TEST
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.22.30) on June 21, 2001 at 3:16 AM (ET)

A t-test involves a test statistic that is assumed to be normally distributed. This can be a difference of two random variables.
ANOVA generally uses an F-statistic - that is testing if a certain estimate of the variance is too large.
While all two sided t-tests can be restated as F-tests, things get complicated the other way - though we do have multiple comparisons, etc.

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