
Introductory Statistics (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321989178
Author: Neil A. Weiss
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10, Problem 1RP
Understanding the Concepts and Skills
1. Discuss the basic startegy for comparing the means of two populations based on independent simple random samples.
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To discuss: The basic strategy for comparing the means of two populations based on independent simple random samples.
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Strategies used for comparing the means of two populations based on independent samples:
- The samples must be independent.
- The means of the two samples must be computed and null hypothesis must be rejected if the means of the samples differ from one another or else the null hypothesis fails to reject.
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