Assume the Competing Hypotheses Take the Following Form: Versus

question 73

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 that the observations in the two samples are independent.The population variances are not known but are assumed equal.The value of the appropriate test statistic is computed as ____________.

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