You are subsequently able to obtain comparable data, including age in years, from all 5 hospitals in town on all women admitted during the same one-year period to deliver their first child. Before proceeding further with any analysis, you wish to make sure that women are comparable across the 5 hospitals. You are specifically interested in the ages of women delivering at the different hospitals. What statistical test would be best for this analysis?

Group of answer choices

A. Pearson correlation

B. Two-sample (unpaired) t-test

C. Paired t-test

D. One-way analysis of variance

E. Simple linear regression