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Name: Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Means and Two Population Proportions: Comparing Two Independent Population Means with Known Population Standard Deviations
ID: m17042
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module provides an overview of hypothesis testing in situations where there are both two independent population means and known population standard deviations in statistics.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: elementary, statistics
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Dr. Barbara Illowsky (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (deansusan@deanza.edu), Dr. Barbara Illowsky (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Version: 1.7 (history)
Created: Jun 17, 2008 4:27 pm GMT-5
Revised: Oct 27, 2008 5:39 pm GMT-5

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Dean, Susan, and Barbara Illowsky. "Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Means and Two Population Proportions: Comparing Two Independent Population Means with Known Population Standard Deviations." Connexions. October 27, 2008. http://cnx.org/content/m17042/1.7/.

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Susan Dean and Barbara Illowsky, "Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Means and Two Population Proportions: Comparing Two Independent Population Means with Known Population Standard Deviations," Connexions, October 27, 2008, http://cnx.org/content/m17042/1.7/.

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Dean, S., & Illowsky, B. 2008. Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Means and Two Population Proportions: Comparing Two Independent Population Means with Known Population Standard Deviations. Connexions, October 27, 2008. http://cnx.org/content/m17042/1.7/.

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Dean, Susan, and Barbara Illowsky. Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Means and Two Population Proportions: Comparing Two Independent Population Means with Known Population Standard Deviations. Connexions. 27 Oct. 2008 <http://cnx.org/content/m17042/1.7/>.