Compară metode

	Testul T² al lui Hotelling	Testul t Welch (variante inegale)
Domeniu	Statistică	Statistică
Familie	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Anul apariției	1931	1947
Autorul original	Harold Hotelling	B. L. Welch
Tip	Multivariate parametric mean comparison	Parametric mean comparison (unequal variances)
Sursa seminală	Hotelling, H. (1931). The Generalization of Student's Ratio. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 2(3), 360–378.	Welch, B. L. (1947). The generalization of Student's problem when several different population variances are involved. Biometrika, 34(1/2), 28–35.
Denumiri alternative	Hotelling T² Testi — Çok Değişkenli t-Testi, multivariate t-test, Hotelling T-squared	unequal variances t-test, Welch-Satterthwaite t-test, Welch t-Testi (Eşit Olmayan Varyans)
Înrudite	6	4
Rezumat	Hotelling's T² test is a multivariate parametric hypothesis test that simultaneously compares the mean vectors of two independent groups across multiple continuous outcome variables. It was introduced by Harold Hotelling in 1931 as the direct multivariate generalization of Student's t-test, replacing the scalar mean difference with a vector difference scaled by the pooled variance-covariance matrix.	Welch's t-test is a parametric hypothesis test that compares the means of two independent groups without assuming their variances are equal. It was introduced by B. L. Welch in 1947 as a more robust generalization of Student's two-sample test for situations where the two groups have different spread.