The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 21 - Comparing Two Means - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 499: 21.11

Answer

Population distributions might not be normal

Work Step by Step

The central limit theorem cannot be used because both samples are very small, so the two-sample t confidence interval for the difference will not be accurate
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