############################################################# ## R code to accompany the textbook ## Statistics: The Art & Science of Learning from Data ## by A. Agresti, C. Franklin and B. Klingenberg ## 5th Edition, Pearson 2021 ## Web: ArtofStat.com ## Copyright: Bernhard Klingenberg ############################################################ #################### ### Chapter 10 ### ### Example 7 ### #################### ########################################################### ## Standard Error for the Difference of Two Sample Means ## ########################################################### # Reading in data effectiveness <- read.csv(file='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artofstat/data/master/Chapter10/text_and_graph.csv') # To subset data to make the two groups textAndGraph <- subset(effectiveness, Graph == 'Yes') textOnly <- subset(effectiveness, Graph == 'No') # To find sample mean, sample standard deviation, and sample size sd1 <- sd(textAndGraph$Rating) sd2 <- sd(textOnly$Rating) n1 <- length(textAndGraph$Rating) n2 <- length(textOnly$Rating) # To compute the standard error for the difference se <- sqrt((sd1 ** 2 / n1) + (sd2 ** 2 / n2)) se