Confidence Interval for Two

Populations that have

Unequal Unknown Variance
The confidence interval
  for , if the two
populations are assumed to have unequal
unknown variances and
 Confidence Interval
O 
where - mean of the 1st independent random sample
- mean of the 2nd independent random sample
- variance of the 1st independent sample
- variance of the 2nd independent sample
- sample size of 1st independent sample
- sample size of 2nd independent sample
 Confidence Interval
O 

Where
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O  2 2 2
𝑠 𝑠

𝑑𝑓 =
( 1
+
𝑛1 𝑛2
2
)
2 2 2 2
𝑠 𝑠

[ ][ ]
( )
1
𝑛1
(𝑛1 − 1)
+
( )
𝑛2
(𝑛2 − 1)
2
 Example
O Independent random samples were selected from
population 1 and population 2 which passes the
following data:
Population 1 Population 2
=6.95

Find a 95% confidence interval for estimating the

difference of the true population means assuming that
the population variances are unknown and unequal.