Mathematical Statistics with Applications
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ISBN: 9781133384380
Author: Dennis Wackerly; William Mendenhall; Richard L. Scheaffer
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 9.3, Problem 17E
Suppose that X1, X2,…, Xn and Y1, Y2,…,Yn are independent random samples from populations with means µ1 and µ2 and variances
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