You have two independent samples of size 24 and 27. You conduct a hypothesis test and obtain a p-value. Using the conservative method what would you use for the degrees of freedom for comparison?
24
27
23
26
49
To determine the degrees of freedom for comparison in this scenario, you need to use the smaller sample size minus 1 for each sample. Here, the smaller sample size is 24.
Therefore, you would use 23 as the degrees of freedom for comparison when using the conservative method.