t-检验:
t-检验,又称student‘s t-test,可以用于比较两组数据是否来自同一分布(可以用于比较两组数据的区分度),假设了数据的正态性,并反应两组数据的方差在统计上是否有显著差异。
matlab中提供了两种相同形式的方法来解决这一假设检验问题,分别为ttest方法和ttest2方法,两者的参数、返回值类型均相同,不同之处在于ttest方法做的是 One-sample and paired-sample t-test,而ttest2则是 Two-sample t-test with pooled or unpooled variance estimate, performs an unpaired two-sample t-test。但是这里至于paired和unpaired之间的区别我却还没搞清楚,只是在Student's t-test中看到了如下这样一段解释:
“Two-sample t-tests for a difference in mean involve independent samples, paired samples and overlapping samples. Pairedt-tests are a form of blocking, and have greater power than unpaired tests when the paired units are similar with respect to "noise factors" that are independent of membership in the two groups being compared.t-tests can be used to reduce the effects ofconfounding factors in an observational study.”
因此粗略认为paired是考虑了噪声