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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Chapter 7.5, Problem 7.47LM
- a. Consider testing H0: μ = 80. Under what conditions should you use the t-distribution to conduct the test?
- b. In what ways are the distributions of the z-statistic and t-test statistic alike? How do they differ?
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