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Chapter 14: Hypothesis Tests – Small Samples
Since the standard deviation
is unknown, we can compute an estimate for
it. The estimate we use is called the pooled standard deviation, denoted by
The pooled variance, denoted by
given below, can be used to find
Note
: The subscripts refer to the respective populations.
Thus we can write
Note:
The distribution for the following statistic