Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Suppose that a population contains 200,000 experimental units. Use a random number generator to select a simple random sample of n = 10 units from the population.

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Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)

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