{"id":11652,"date":"2019-12-25T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/?post_type=dt_lessons&#038;p=11652"},"modified":"2019-12-25T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T10:42:06","slug":"welch-t-test","status":"publish","type":"dt_lessons","link":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/lessons\/types-of-t-test\/unpaired-t-test\/welch-t-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Welch T-Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rdoc\">\n<p>The independent samples t-test comes in two different forms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the standard <em>Student\u2019s t-test<\/em>, which assumes that the variance of the two groups are equal.<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>Welch\u2019s t-test<\/strong>, which is less restrictive compared to the original Student\u2019s test. This is the test where you do not assume that the variance is the same in the two groups, which results in the fractional degrees of freedom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"warning\">\n<p>Note that, the Welch t-test is considered as the safer one. Usually, the results of the <strong>classical student\u2019s t-test<\/strong> and the <strong>Welch t-test<\/strong> are very similar unless both the group sizes and the standard deviations are very different.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This article describes the <strong>Welch t-test<\/strong>, which is an adaptation of the Student\u2019s t-test for comparing the means of two independent groups, in the situation where the homogeneity of variance assumption is not met. The Welch t-test is also referred as: <em>Welch\u2019s t-test<\/em>, <em>Welchs t-test<\/em>, <em>t-test unequal variance<\/em>, <em>t-test assuming unequal variances<\/em> or <em>separate variance t-test<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this article, you will learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Welch t-test formula<\/em> and <em>assumptions<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How to compute, interpret and report the Welch t-test in R<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>How to check the Welch t-test assumptions<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contents:<\/p>\n<div id=\"TOC\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#prerequisites\">Prerequisites<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#research-questions\">Research questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#statistical-hypotheses\">Statistical hypotheses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#formula\">Formula<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#assumptions-and-preleminary-tests\">Assumptions and preleminary tests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#calculating-the-test-in-r\">Calculating the test in R<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#demo-data\">Demo data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#summary-statistics\">Summary statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#visualization\">Visualization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#computation\">Computation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#cohens-d-for-welch-t-test\">Cohen\u2019s d for Welch t-test<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#report\">Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#summary\">Summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class='dt-sc-hr-invisible-medium  '><\/div>\n<div class='dt-sc-ico-content type1'><div class='custom-icon' ><a href='https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/product\/practical-statistics-in-r-for-comparing-groups-numerical-variables\/' target='_blank'><span class='fa fa-book'><\/span><\/a><\/div><h4><a href='https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/product\/practical-statistics-in-r-for-comparing-groups-numerical-variables\/' target='_blank'> Related Book <\/a><\/h4>Practical Statistics in R II - Comparing Groups: Numerical Variables<\/div>\n<div class='dt-sc-hr-invisible-medium  '><\/div>\n<div id=\"prerequisites\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Prerequisites<\/h2>\n<p>Make sure you have installed the following R packages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>tidyverse<\/code> for data manipulation and visualization<\/li>\n<li><code>ggpubr<\/code> for creating easily publication ready plots<\/li>\n<li><code>rstatix<\/code> provides pipe-friendly R functions for easy statistical analyses.<\/li>\n<li><code>datarium<\/code>: contains required data sets for this chapter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Start by loading the following required packages:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>library(tidyverse)\r\nlibrary(ggpubr)\r\nlibrary(rstatix)<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"research-questions\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Research questions<\/h2>\n<p>A typical research questions is: whether the mean of group A (<span class=\"math inline\">\\(m_A\\)<\/span>) is equal to the mean of group B (<span class=\"math inline\">\\(m_B\\)<\/span>)?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"statistical-hypotheses\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Statistical hypotheses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Null hypothesis (Ho): the two group means are identical (<span class=\"math inline\">\\(m_A = m_B\\)<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>Alternative hypothesis (Ha): the two group means are different (<span class=\"math inline\">\\(m_A \\ne m_B\\)<\/span>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"formula\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Formula<\/h2>\n<p>The Welch t-statistic is calculated as follow :<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"math display\">\\[<br \/>\nt = \\frac{m_A - m_B}{\\sqrt{ \\frac{S_A^2}{n_A} + \\frac{S_B^2}{n_B} }}<br \/>\n\\]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>where, <span class=\"math inline\">\\(S_A\\)<\/span> and <span class=\"math inline\">\\(S_B\\)<\/span> are the standard deviation of the the two groups A and B, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the classic Student\u2019s t-test, the Welch t-test formula involves the variance of each of the two groups (<span class=\"math inline\">\\(S_A^2\\)<\/span> and <span class=\"math inline\">\\(S_B^2\\)<\/span>) being compared. In other words, it does not use the pooled variance<span class=\"math inline\">\\(S\\)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>degrees of freedom<\/strong> of <strong>Welch t-test<\/strong> is estimated as follow :<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"math display\">\\[<br \/>\ndf = (\\frac{S_A^2}{n_A}+ \\frac{S_B^2}{n_B})^2 \/ (\\frac{S_A^4}{n_A^2(n_A-1)} + \\frac{S_B^4}{n_B^2(n_B-1)} )<br \/>\n\\]<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"success\">\n<p>A p-value can be computed for the corresponding absolute value of t-statistic (|t|).<\/p>\n<p>If the p-value is inferior or equal to the significance level 0.05, we can reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis. In other words, we can conclude that the mean values of group A and B are significantly different.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"assumptions-and-preleminary-tests\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Assumptions and preleminary tests<\/h2>\n<p>The Welch t-test assumes the following characteristics about the data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Independence of the observations<\/strong>. Each subject should belong to only one group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No significant outliers<\/strong> in the two groups<\/li>\n<li><strong>Normality<\/strong>. the data for each group should be approximately normally distributed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click to check the <a href=\"\/?p=10861\">Student t-test assumptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"calculating-the-test-in-r\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Calculating the test in R<\/h2>\n<div id=\"demo-data\" class=\"section level3\">\n<h3>Demo data<\/h3>\n<p>Demo dataset: <code>genderweight<\/code> [in datarium package] containing the weight of 40 individuals (20 women and 20 men).<\/p>\n<p>Load the data and show some random rows by groups:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Load the data\r\ndata(\"genderweight\", package = \"datarium\")\r\n# Show a sample of the data by group\r\nset.seed(123)\r\ngenderweight %&gt;% sample_n_by(group, size = 2)<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 4 x 3\r\n##   id    group weight\r\n##   &lt;fct&gt; &lt;fct&gt;  &lt;dbl&gt;\r\n## 1 6     F       65.0\r\n## 2 15    F       65.9\r\n## 3 29    M       88.9\r\n## 4 37    M       77.0<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"summary-statistics\" class=\"section level3\">\n<h3>Summary statistics<\/h3>\n<p>Compute some summary statistics by groups: mean and sd (standard deviation)<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>genderweight %&gt;%\r\n  group_by(group) %&gt;%\r\n  get_summary_stats(weight, type = \"mean_sd\")<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 2 x 5\r\n##   group variable     n  mean    sd\r\n##   &lt;fct&gt; &lt;chr&gt;    &lt;dbl&gt; &lt;dbl&gt; &lt;dbl&gt;\r\n## 1 F     weight      20  63.5  2.03\r\n## 2 M     weight      20  85.8  4.35<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"visualization\" class=\"section level3\">\n<h3>Visualization<\/h3>\n<p>Visualize the data using box plots. Plot weight by groups.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>bxp &lt;- ggboxplot(\r\n  genderweight, x = \"group\", y = \"weight\", \r\n  ylab = \"Weight\", xlab = \"Groups\", add = \"jitter\"\r\n  )\r\nbxp<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/r-statistics-2-comparing-groups-means\/figures\/071b-welch-t-test-box-plot-1.png\" width=\"364.8\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"computation\" class=\"section level3\">\n<h3>Computation<\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019ll use the pipe-friendly <code>t_test()<\/code> function [rstatix package], a wrapper around the R base function <code>t.test()<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that, by default, R computes the Welch t-test, which is the safer one. This is the test where you do not assume that the variance is the same in the two groups, which results in the fractional degrees of freedom. If you want to assume the equality of variances (Student t-test), specify the option <code>var.equal = TRUE<\/code>.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>stat.test &lt;- genderweight %&gt;%\r\n  t_test(weight ~ group) %&gt;%\r\n  add_significance()\r\nstat.test<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 1 x 9\r\n##   .y.    group1 group2    n1    n2 statistic    df        p p.signif\r\n##   &lt;chr&gt;  &lt;chr&gt;  &lt;chr&gt;  &lt;int&gt; &lt;int&gt;     &lt;dbl&gt; &lt;dbl&gt;    &lt;dbl&gt; &lt;chr&gt;   \r\n## 1 weight F      M         20    20     -20.8  26.9 4.30e-18 ****<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The results above show the following components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>.y.<\/code>: the y variable used in the test.<\/li>\n<li><code>group1,group2<\/code>: the compared groups in the pairwise tests.<\/li>\n<li><code>statistic<\/code>: Test statistic used to compute the p-value.<\/li>\n<li><code>df<\/code>: degrees of freedom.<\/li>\n<li><code>p<\/code>: p-value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"warning\">\n<p>Note that, you can obtain a detailed result by specifying the option <code>detailed = TRUE<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cohens-d-for-welch-t-test\" class=\"section level3\">\n<h3>Cohen\u2019s d for Welch t-test<\/h3>\n<p>The effect size can be computed by dividing the mean difference between the groups by the \u201caveraged\u201d standard deviation.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen\u2019s d formula:<\/p>\n<p><code>d = (mean1 - mean2)\/sqrt((var1 + var2)\/2)<\/code>, where:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>mean1<\/code> and <code>mean2<\/code> are the means of each group, respectively<\/li>\n<li><code>var1<\/code> and <code>var2<\/code> are the variance of the two groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calculation:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>genderweight %&gt;% cohens_d(weight ~ group, var.equal = FALSE)<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 1 x 7\r\n##   .y.    group1 group2 effsize    n1    n2 magnitude\r\n## * &lt;chr&gt;  &lt;chr&gt;  &lt;chr&gt;    &lt;dbl&gt; &lt;int&gt; &lt;int&gt; &lt;ord&gt;    \r\n## 1 weight F      M        -6.57    20    20 large<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"report\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Report<\/h2>\n<p>We could report the result as follow:<\/p>\n<p>The mean weight in female group was 63.5 (SD = 2.03), whereas the mean in male group was 85.8 (SD = 4.3). A Welch two-samples t-test showed that the difference was statistically significant, t(26.9) = -20.8, p &lt; 0.0001, d = 6.57; where, t(26.9) is shorthand notation for a Welch t-statistic that has 26.9 degrees of freedom.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>stat.test &lt;- stat.test %&gt;% add_xy_position(x = \"group\")\r\nbxp + \r\n  stat_pvalue_manual(stat.test, tip.length = 0) +\r\n  labs(subtitle = get_test_label(stat.test, detailed = TRUE))<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/r-statistics-2-comparing-groups-means\/figures\/071b-welch-t-test-two-sample-box-plot-with-p-values-1.png\" width=\"412.8\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"summary\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>This article describes the formula and the basics of the Welch t-test. 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