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Student_B
Calcite | Level 5

Suppose we have variables ID X Y and our data looks like this:

003 42 34

004 54 65

005 33 46

. . .

I want to perform a paired and unpaired t-test on the X and Y variables without a data step (this is part of the question).. I understand

how to do a paired, but how can you do an unpaired t-test, as in X and Y are just different sets of sample data? es

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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

Proc Transpose...; by id; var x y; run; ? Then proc ttest...; class _NAME_; var col1; run;

PG
Reeza
Super User

You need to transform your data so that you have your variables stacked and a new variable that identifies the groups:

ID Var Value

1 X 1

1 Y 2

1 X 3

1 Y 4

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