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Inferences Based on Two Samples

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Chapters 8 and 9 presented confidence intervals (CIs) and hypothesis testing procedures for a single mean μ, single proportion p, and a single variance σ 2. Here we extend these methods to situations involving the means, proportions, and variances of two different population distributions.

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Devore, J.L., Berk, K.N. (2012). Inferences Based on Two Samples. In: Modern Mathematical Statistics with Applications. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0391-3_10

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