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Objective

The objective is to compare the sample means of two independent samples,

$\displaystyle \overline{x}_1$   and$\displaystyle \quad\overline{x}_2 $

when the population standard deviations are unknown and must be estimated from the sample standard deviations $ s_1$ and $ s_2$ .


gene quinn 2006-12-04