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[curiosgeorge]

Hello, how can I use the following data to conduct an independent t-test? The following data comes from different datasets.

Sex	Rate of suicide (in 100 person years)
Male	30.5
Female	39.3

[PaigeMiller]

Hello, how can I use the following data to conduct an independent t-test?

You can't.

You'd need some measure of variability that comes from the original data to compute a t-test.