>>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley
<tlumley@u.washington.edu>
>>>>> on Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:19:27 -0700 (PDT) writes:
TL> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 roxburg@kih.net wrote:
>> This is not a bug report but didn't see another way to
>> ask a question.
TL> Well, you could try the r-help or r-devel mailing lists
>> For the approximate t-test assuming unequal variances,
>> the R docs cite Welch's method for the df of the
>> approximating distribution. I have several methods
>> books, and they all uses Satterthwaite's method. Why
>> does R use Welch's method where can I learn about Welch's
>> method?
>>
TL> It's the same method.
TL> The t-statistic is the difference in means divided by a
TL> more-or-less unbiased estimate of its standard
TL> deviation. There's only one natural way to do this and
TL> in sufficiently large samples that's all you need.
TL> The more difficult part is the sampling distribution,
TL> which is approximated by a t-distribution with degrees
TL> of freedom from some complicated formula involving the
TL> two sample sizes and variances. It was indepedently
TL> derived by Welch and Satterthwaite.
I've added "Satterthwaite" to the help page now.
Martin
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