Fundamentals of Statistics (5th Edition)
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Author: Michael Sullivan III
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Chapter B.3, Problem 1AYU
- (a) Determine the critical value for a right-tailed test of a population standard deviation with 18 degrees of freedom at the α = 0.05 level of significance.
- (b) Determine the critical value for a left-tailed test of a population standard deviation for a
sample of size n = 23 at the α = 0.1 level of significance. - (c) Determine the critical values for a two-tailed test of a population standard deviation for a sample of size n = 30 at the α = 0.05 level of significance.
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