If One Cannot Assume That Two Unknown Population Standard Deviations

question 22

Multiple Choice

If one cannot assume that two unknown population standard deviations are equal, we estimate the standard error of the difference using ______.

• A) separate variance estimator
• B) pooled variance estimator
• C) unequal variance estimator
• D) seemingly unequal variance estimator

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