Independent t-test

Do two separate groups differ on average?

What your data needs to look like

Two sets of measurements.

What Chavery does with it

It checks the assumptions first — normality where the test assumes it, and equality of variance where that matters — and says whether each one held. When an assumption fails it names the alternative test rather than running this one anyway.

Then it reports the statistic, the p-value, a confidence interval and an effect size, and writes the sentence you would put in your results chapter. The same numbers always give the same answer; nothing is generated by a language model.

Reporting it

A p-value on its own is not a result. Chavery reports the effect size beside it, because a difference can be statistically significant and too small to matter, and an examiner will ask which yours is. More on effect size.

Related tests

• Kruskal-Wallis — Three or more groups, without assuming normality.
• Mann-Whitney U — Two groups, without assuming normality.
• One-sample t-test — Is this group's mean different from a known value?
• One-way ANOVA — Three or more groups.
• Paired t-test — Before and after, in the same people.
• Welch's t-test — Two groups with unequal spread.
• Wilcoxon signed-rank — Before and after, without assuming normality.