Hello,
It is always better if you can increase the sample size. But if you cannot do then there should not be any worry because t-test does not make any assumption of equality of sample size. But you should always test the equality of variance between the two groups. In case you found variance are differing you should either use Welch's correction to the degrees of freedom or should shift towards the Nonparametric test.
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--- On Sat, 14/11/09, Bilal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Bilal <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Testing Differences between Groups
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, 14 November, 2009, 5:41 PM
Dear All
I have two groups named Middle Managers (MM) and Top Managers (TM) and I
want to test whether the mean differences between the two are significant or
not.
My issue is that Group 1 (MM) has 150 respondents (10 respondents from one
organization each) while Group 2 (TM) has 15 respondents (One response from
each organization- Because Top Managers are fewer in numbers in a given
organization)
I plan to use T-test for testing the significance but am worried about the
disparity between sample size of the two groups...The data has already been
collected...Do I need to increase the sample size?
Would welcome any advice/suggestions in this regard...
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Dr. Bilal Mustafa Khan
Assistant Professor
Department of Business Administration
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
India
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