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!rowspan="3"|2 means
|''Enough large sample''
*'''Z test'''
::<math>
\end{align}
</math>
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*'''Paired Student's t test'''
</math>
::where <math>\bar{d}</math> is the mean of differences of paired observations
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*'''Wilcoxon rank sum test'''<br>='''Mann-Whitney test'''
:#To look up ''critical range'' relevant to both numbers of observations and whether '''the sum of ranks''' in '''the group of smaller number of observation''' (=statistics) is outside the range or not
::if outside the range, p-value is smaller than designated
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*'''Wilcoxon signed rank test'''
:#To look up '''critical value''' relevant to numbers of pairs with non-0 differences and whether '''the smaller sum of rank''' (=statistics) is smaller than the critical value
::if smaller than the critical value, p-value is smaller than designated
|-
|''Small sample size <30 in a group''
\end{align}
</math>
|-
|''Large discrepancy in SDs between groups''
*Fisher-Behrens
*Welch
|-
!≥ 3 means
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*'''One-way ANOVA'''
::<math>
\begin{align}
F & = \frac{ \sum_{j=1}^k \sum_{j=1}^{n_j} (x_{ij}-\bar{x_j})^2 }{ k-1 } \\
& \div \frac{ \sum_{j=1}^k (\bar{x_j}-\bar{x})^2 }{ n-k }
\end{align}
</math>
::<math>n</math> is sample size (whole combined number of observations)
::<math>k</math> is number of groups
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::The variance of whole combined observations is
::<math>s^2=\frac{\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\bar{x})^2}{n-1}</math>
::The numarator is ''sum of square''
::<math>\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\bar{x})^2</math>
::<math>= \sum_{i=1}^n x_i^2 - 2\bar{x} \sum_{i=1}^n x_i + \bar{x}^2 \sum_{i=1}^n 1</math>
--!>
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*'''Linear-regression model'''
*Repeated measures ANOVA
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*'''Kruskall-Wallis test'''