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 - Check Your Skills - Page 508: 21.21

Answer

b) confidence levels and P-values from the t procedures are quite accurate even if the population distribution is not exactly normal.

Work Step by Step

The results from a t procedure become closer to a normal distribution as sample size increases.
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