Introductory Statistics 9th Edition

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Chapter 8 - Section 8.3 - Estimation of a Population Mean: σ Not Known - Exercises - Page 329: 8.29

Answer

Parameter for normal distribution is μ = mean of the sample collected from the population $σ_{s}$ = standard deviation / square root of n α = (1-confidence level)100% $Z_{α}$ = value of confidence level Parameter for t-distribution is X̄ = mean of the sample $σ_{X̄}$ = standard deviation of the sample α = (1-confidence level)/2 $Z_{α/2}$ = value of the confidence level

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