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We have seen that a hypothesis test concerning the mean of a normal population can be carried out by standardizing the sample mean, i.e., by subtracting the population mean specified by the null hypothesis and dividing by the standard error of the mean, \( \sigma /\sqrt n \). The resulting statistic is a z-score, and may be referred to the standard normal distribution for tail area probabilities. In large samples we have also used a consistent estimate for σ when it is unknown.
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Finkelstein, M.O., Levin, B. (1990). Comparing Means. In: Statistics for Lawyers. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3328-2_7
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