Problem 6E
The following are summary statistics for a data set. Would it be appropriate to use the Student’s t distribution to construct a confidence interval from these data? Explain.
N |
Mean |
Medaian |
StDev |
10 |
8.905 |
6.105 |
9.690 |
Minimum |
Maximum |
01 |
03 |
0.512 |
39.920 |
1.967 |
8.103 |
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