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    What type of testing to do on the statistic I have?



    Not quite sure on the reasoning of which tests to use. Would like some help.
    For one of the questions, out of 50 games Frank has played 60% of the games randomly selected from a game database. Tom on the other hand has played 5% of 50 randomly selected games from the database. Is there any evidence the percentage of games played by Tom is different from Frank?
    My guess: The population standard deviation is not know, so a t test should be used. From the phrasing it should be a two sided t test?

    Thank you.

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    You don't need any test here.. 5% and 60% are definitely different.

    still if you are looking for statistical testing.. use two sample proportion test
    the following link may help
    http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~hahn/cour...roportion.html
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