Assume the Competing Hypotheses Take the Following Form: Versus

question 63

Multiple Choice

Assume the competing hypotheses take the following form: versus ,where is the population mean for population 1 and is the population mean for population 2.Also assume that the populations are normally distributed and we use independent sampling.The population variances are not known and cannot be assumed equal.The value of the appropriate test statistic is computed as ____________.

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Definitions:

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