Student Solutions Manual for Devore's Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th
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Author: Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 8.2, Problem 27E
Show that for any Δ > 0, when the population distribution is normal and σ is known, the two-tailed test satisfies β(μ0 − Δ) = β(μ0 + Δ), so that β(μ′) is symmetric about μ0.
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