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Testing equality of two normal means using combined samples of paired and unpaired data |
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| Authors: | Nizam Uddin M S Hasan |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Statistics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA;2. Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA |
| Abstract: | A test for equality of two normal means when the data consist of both paired and unpaired observations is proposed. The proposed test is compared with two other standard methods known in the literature with respect to the type I error rate and power using simulation results. |
| Keywords: | Normal distribution Paired and unpaired data Power Simulation t-distribution Test of equality of means Type I error |