
Elementary Statistics
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780321836960
Author: Mario F. Triola
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3.3, Problem 1BSC
Comparing Variation Which do you think has less variation: the IQ scores of students in your statistics class or the IQ scores of a simple random sample taken from the general population? Why?
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