Chapter 10: Q.10.70 (page 427)
You know that the population standard deviations are not equal.
Short Answer
For the current circumstance, a non-pooled test should be utilised.
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Chapter 10: Q.10.70 (page 427)
You know that the population standard deviations are not equal.
For the current circumstance, a non-pooled test should be utilised.
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Use the technology of your choice to answer the following questions. Explain your answers.
a. If you had to choose between the use of pooled-procedures and nonpooled -procedures here, which would you choose?
b. Is it reasonable to use the type of procedure that you selected in part (a)?
Suppose that the sample sizes, and , are equal for independent simple random samples from two populations.
a. Show that the values of the pooled and nonpooled r-statistics will be identical. (Hint: Refer to Exercise 10.61 on page 417.)
b. Explain why part (a) does not imply that the two t-tests are Equivalent (i.e., will necessarily lead to the same conclusion) when the sample sizes are equal.
Fortified Juice and PIH. Refer to Exercise 10.47 and find a 90% confidence interval for the difference between the mean reductions in PTH levels for fortified and unfortified orange juice.
In each of Exercises 10.35-10.38, we have provided summary statistics for independent simple random samples from two populations. Preliminary data analyses indicate that the variable under consideration is normally distributed on each population. Decide, in each case, whether use of the pooled -lest and pooled -interval procedure is reasonable. Explain your answer.
10.37
Identify the assumption for using the two means test and the two mean interval procedure that renders those procedures generally impractical.
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