In exercises that call for two-sample procedures, you may use either of the two approximations for the degrees of freedom that we have discussed: the value given by your software or the smaller of and . Be sure to state clearly which approximation you have used.
7.70 Pooled procedures.
Refer to the previous two exercises. Reanalyze the data using the pooled procedure. Does the conclusion depend on the choice of method? The standard deviations are quite different for these data, so we do not recommend use of the pooled procedures in this case.