A dataset from a simulation study with 4 data-generating mechanisms, useful to illustrate custom input of confidence intervals to calculate coverage probability. This simulation study aims to compare the t-test assuming pooled or unpooled variance in violation (or not) of the t-test assumptions: normality of data, and equality (or not) or variance between groups. The true value of the difference between groups is -1.
ttA data frame with 4,000 rows and 8 variables:
diff The difference in mean between groups estimated by the t-test;
se Standard error of the estimated difference;
conf.low, conf.high Confidence interval for the difference in mean as reported by the t-test;
df The number of degrees of freedom assumed by the t-test;
repno Identifies each replication, between 1 and 500;
dgm Identifies each data-generating mechanism: 1 corresponds to normal data with equal variance between the groups, 2 is normal data with unequal variance, 3 and 4 are skewed data (simulated from a Gamma distribution) with equal and unequal variance between groups, respectively;
method Analysis method: 1 represents the t-test with pooled variance, while 2 represents the t-test with unpooled variance.
data("tt", package = "rsimsum")
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