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Chapter 12: Hypothesis Tests – Large Samples

that students should be allowed to smoke in their dorm rooms on this

particular campus are not statistically significantly different from each other.

Section Review

12-6 Large Sample Tests for the DifferenceBetweenTwo

Population Means

There may be problems in which one must decide whether the observed

difference between two sample means is due to chance or whether the

difference is due to the fact that the population means are not the same or

that the samples are not from the same population. Here we will discuss

such problems.

Figure 12- 26

shows the experimental display of the sampling populations

with respective means

and

Independent samples of size

and

are

selected from the respective populations.

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