>C'mon, guys, ease up a bit....
>
>I'd thought it obvious that "Albert" (and/or "James Lo", and/or whoever
>else is using the account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) is a student in an
>introductory stats class, and that they've been introduced at least to
>the normal (aka Gaussian) distribution (and a table thereof) and to the
>Central Limit Theorem, but not yet to "Student"'s t distribution. And
>they have been asked to construct a confidence interval as an exercise.
>
>
There were so many problems with the wording of this question that -- if this
actually is an "homework" exercise (forget the assumptions about normailty etc)
-- it is enough to make one despair about the quality of instruction of
statistists at the introductory level -- an issue that is not new.
.
.
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