Suppose a Laboratory Is Interested in Changing from a Manual

question 13

Multiple Choice

Suppose a laboratory is interested in changing from a manual assay for a given analyte to an automated assay for the analyte.Data collected by each of the two methods are unrelated, and the number of observations differs for each dataset.Which statistical method should be selected to determine if a significant difference exists between the means of the two methods?

• A)t-test
• B)unpaired t-test
• C)paired t-test
• D)standard error of the mean

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