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Paired t-test

Calculates the paired t-Test of two data samples.

To access this command...

Choose Data - Statistics - Paired t-test

A paired t-test is any statistical hypothesis test that follows a Student's t distribution.

For more information on paired t-tests, refer to the corresponding Wikipedia article.

Data

Variable 1 range: The reference of the range of the first data series to analyze.

Variable 2 range: The reference of the range of the second data series to analyze.

Results to: The reference of the top left cell of the range where the test will be displayed.

Grouped By

Select whether the input data has columns or rows layout.

Example

The following table has two data sets.

| | A | B | | | ---- | -- | -- | | 1 | 28 | 19 | | 2 | 26 | 13 | | 3 | 31 | 12 | | 4 | 23 | 5 | | 5 | 20 | 34 | | 6 | 27 | 31 | | 7 | 28 | 31 | | 8 | 14 | 12 | | 9 | 4 | 24 | | 10 | 0 | 23 | | 11 | 2 | 19 | | 12 | 8 | 10 | | 13 | 9 | 33 |

Results for paired t-test:

The following table shows the paired t-test for the data series above:

paired t-test
Alpha 0.05
Hypothesized Mean Difference 0
Variable 1 Variable 2
Mean 16.9230769231 20.4615384615
Variance 125.0769230769 94.4358974359
Observations 13 13
Pearson Correlation -0.0617539772
Observed Mean Difference -3.5384615385
Variance of the Differences 232.9358974359
df 12
t Stat -0.8359262137
P (T<=t) one-tail 0.2097651442
t Critical one-tail 1.7822875556
P (T<=t) two-tail 0.4195302884
t Critical two-tail 2.1788128297