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Confidence Intervals
Message posted by Eric on April 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)
I have two samples from the same population. How do I prove that those samples were random?
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Re: Confidence Intervals
Message posted by Vern Myers on April 13, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)
A "random sample" generally means that each part of the population had an equal chance of being included in the sample. Often, random number tables or a random number generator is used for the sample selection.
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