You may find these links helpful for the introduction to the t-test and the interpretation of the t-test results:
http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/LHSP.HTM See: Student's t Test for Independent Samples http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda353.htm Timur -- Timur Shtatland, Ph.D. Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Agencourt Bioscience Corporation - A Beckman Coulter Company 500 Cummings Center, Suite 2450 Beverly, MA 01915 office: 978-867-2641, fax: 978-867-2920 email: timur [dot] shtatland [at] rem0veth1s agencourt [dot] com http://www.agencourt.com/ On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Omar Bahy Badreddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have run a t.test in R, and received these results: > > Two Sample t-test > > data: rsa and umple > > t = 0.9819, df = 10, p-value = 0.3493 > > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0 > > 95 percent confidence interval: > > -76.1541 196.1541 > > sample estimates: > > mean of x mean of y > > 508.3333 448.3333 > Can someone give me a detailed interpretation of the above results? > Specifically, the meaning of the following: t = 0.9819, p-value = 0.3493. > > Also, how can I utilize the information about the confidence interval in > interpreting my results? > -- > . > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
