I have two pairs of related vectors
x1,y1

and

x2,y2

I wish to do a test for differences in means of x1 and y1, ditto x2 and y2.

I am getting odd results.  I am not sure I am using 'pt' properly...

I have not included the raw vectors as they are long.  I am interested if I
am using R properly...

> c(length(x1), length(y1), length(x2), length(y2))
[1] 3436 1619 2677 2378


First where the T-stat and the DF do not give the same result as 't.test'
when passed into 'pt'

> t.1 <- t.test(x1, y1)
> 2 * pt(t.1$statistic, t.1$parameter)
       t
1.353946
> t.1$p.value
[1] 0.646054

I would have thought these would have been the same.  Like below....

> t.2 <- t.test(x2, y2)
> 2 * pt(t.2$statistic, t.2$parameter)
        t
0.8679732
> t.2$p.value
[1] 0.8679732

This is what I expect.

clearly I misunderstand some thing.  What is it?

cheers
Worik

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