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A test tomorrow om statistical inference!
Message posted by Rich (via 131.217.6.3) on October 14, 2001 at 7:33 PM (ET)

Could someone please tell me if there is an easy way know what sort of sampling distribution you are looking at? (norm, binom or poisson).
I will have to say which formulas need to be used to work out the 95%CI in different scenarios. How do you tell which formula to use?



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