Following is a portion of the regression output for an application relating maintenance expense (dollars per month) to usage (ho
urs per week) for a particular brand of computer terminal. When each data value in one sample is matched with a corresponding data value in another sample, the samples are known as
A matched sample is obtained when pairing of treatment values for each subject or observation is performed. This sample obtained from a matched pair is usually called dependent sample and is usually done when each subject in an experiment is subjected to two different treatments usually at different time or stage. Hence, matched samples are used in matching observations to tie different groups.