When Testing for the Significance of the Difference Between Two

question 16

Multiple Choice

When testing for the significance of the difference between two sample means,the standard deviation of the sampling distribution is estimated using

• A)population standard deviations.
• B)the standard error of the means.
• C)degrees of freedom.
• D)sample standard deviations corrected for bias.

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