Performance of the traditional pooled variance t-test against the bootstrap procedure of difference between sample means

• Main Authors: Teh, Sin Yin, Md Yusof, Zahayu, Yaacob, Che Rohani, Othman, Abdul Rahman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2010
• Subjects: QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/19401/1/MJMS%204%201%202010%2085-94.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/19401/; http://einspem.upm.edu.my/journal/fullpaper/vol4no1/6.%20Teh%20Sin%20Yin.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

In this study, two methods of comparing the means of two samples were conducted.The first method used the traditional pooled variance t-test while the second method used the bootstrap method of comparing means.In the second method, pseudo sampling distributions were generated for the normal and non...