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Assume that you want to test the claim that the paired sample data come from a population for which the mean difference is µ d = 0. Compute the value of the t test statistic.
x 7 2 7 3 10
y 4 4 3 4 5

t=1.292
t=0.578
t=0.415
t = 1.203.

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