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Volume 20, Issue 4
1 December 2002
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Research Article| December 01 2002

Comparing the means of two groups – the t‐test

Joseph Janes
Joseph Janes is Assistant Professor at The Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and is Founding Director of the Internet Public Library. E‐mail: jwj@u.washington.edu
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-166X
Print ISSN: 0737-8831
© MCB UP Limited
2002
Library Hi Tech (2002) 20 (4): 469–471.
https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830210452677

This column continues a series on topics in research methodology, statistics and data analysis techniques for the library and information sciences. It discusses the t‐test for the differences in means between two independent groups.

Keywords: Research methods, Libraries, Statistics
© MCB UP Limited
2002
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