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Question 957597: How can confidence intervals be used to determine if the means of two populations are significantly different from each other?
Please help with this question.

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How can confidence intervals be used to determine if the means of two populations are significantly different from each other?
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For a thorough discussion of your question I would
suggest you Google "stat confidence interval for difference of means".
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You will find::
sample mean = x1-bar-x2bar
ME = z*sqrt[(s1^2/n1 + (s2^2/n2)]
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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