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 Steven Lancaster posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 12:07 pm
Hi

In the Topic 3 Short Course Video, Part 2, at 7:45 in you state that you can compared the difference between 4.00 and 4.095 and divide by the standard error .042 to determine if 4.095 is different from 4. However, I am not sure what statistic this is. Is difference/SE a t-score or something else?
Thanks,
Steven
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 5:06 pm
It's a z-score assuming that the ratio is approximately normally distributed.
 Steven Lancaster posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 5:49 pm
OK, that makes sense. However, wouldn´t that be significant then (.095/.042 = 2.26)? Perhaps there is a multiple comparisons correction I am missing? Thanks for the quick reply!!
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 11:03 am
It was a mis-speak - it is indeed significantly different from 4.
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