Comparing Means with “Literature Values”

• compute

• significant difference if greater than tabulated t with N-1 degrees of freedom

Example

A sample containing 0.03260 ±0.00041% Ni (standard deviation, 4 measurements) is known to contain 0.0319% Ni. Is the analysis mean “too far” from this value?

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