In Order to Construct an Interval Estimate of the Difference

question 36

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In order to construct an interval estimate of the difference in the means of two normally distributed populations with unknown but equal variances, using two independent samples of size n₁ and n₂, we must use a t distribution with (n₁ + n₂ − 2)degrees of freedom.

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