The Test for a Difference Between Group Means or Independent Samples t-Test

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In the last chapter we explored the question of how old our enterprise founders are on average and we conducted a test for a group mean. We can extend this question. For example, we can be interested in whether women are older than men when they start a business. In this case, we compare the average start-up age of women with the average start-up age of men.

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Kronthaler, F. (2023). The Test for a Difference Between Group Means or Independent Samples t-Test. In: Statistics Applied With Excel. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64319-8_13

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