Identify the Distribution That Applies to the Following Situation? in Constructing

question 25

Multiple Choice

Identify the distribution that applies to the following situation? In constructing a confidence interval of $\sigma$ you have 50 sample values and they appear to be
From a population with a skewed distribution.

• A) Student t distribution
• B) Normal distribution
• C) Chi-square distribution
• D) None of the three distributions is appropriate.

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