THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO MEANS WHEN THE POPULATION VARIANCES ARE UNEQUAL

1938/02/01 by B. L. WELCH, B. L. Welch · 1,509 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Agricultural risk and resilience #Demography #Econometrics #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Mathematics #Population #Sociology #Statistical significance #Statistics

paper · doi:10.1093/biomet/29.3-4.350

published in Biometrika 29(3-4), 350-362 (Oxford University Press)

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