When Using Student's T to Compute an Interval Estimate

question 12

Multiple Choice

When using Student's t to compute an interval estimate,

• A) we assume that the samples are collected from normally distributed populations
• B) we estimate the population standard deviation based on the sample standard deviation
• C) we use the z distribution
• D) A and B only

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