July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 33m
English
Let
and
be random samples taken from independent normal distributions with means
and
and variances
and
, respectively. Our goal is to obtain a 100(1 − α)% confidence interval for the difference of means
. To accomplish this task, we must first examine the properties of the sampling distribution of the difference between two sample means.
Suppose X and Y are independent random variables, where X is
and Y is
. For to serve as an estimator for , we need to study the properties of the distribution ...
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