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The probability that a sample mean, x,
lies between m-sx
and m+ sx
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may be written:
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However, it is more important to find out the confidence interval
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the population mean m. The previous relation can be
written as:
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But we don’t know the true value of s
(the standard deviation of the
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population). If the sample size is large enough (N³30), we can use s
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(the standard deviation estimated by samples) to approximate s:
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