In Developing a Confidence Interval for the Population Standard Deviation

question 49

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In developing a confidence interval for the population standard deviation ,we make use of the fact that the sampling distribution of the sample standard deviation s is not the normal distribution or the t-distribution,but rather a right-skewed distribution called the chi-square distribution,which (for this procedure)has n - 1 degrees of freedom.

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