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27 Mar 2023

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31 Jan 2023

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Resolved: Z-statistic and t-statistic

What if the population variance is unknown and the sample is big. What statistic would we be using? Because from the exmaples illustrated - we use t-test for unknown and small and z-test for known and big

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01 Feb 2023

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If the sample is bigger than 30 (n>30 for mean and n>15 for proportions) the CLT (central limit theorem) comes into play and you can use z-statistic. If you do not know the population variance, you use the sample variance.

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01 Feb 2023

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Thank you for addressing my question. What do you mean by proportions in this context?

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07 Mar 2023

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i dont agree with his answer because we only use CLT when we have many samples with different sizes so then we take mean for all of them and create a distribution of those means called sampling distribution and to answer your question we would use the z statistic.

So, to summarize:

If the population variance is known and the sample size is large or small, we can use a z-test.
If the population variance is unknown and the sample size is small (less than 30), we should use a t-test.
If the population variance is unknown and the sample size is large (greater than 30), we can use a z-test.

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27 Mar 2023

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Posted on:

27 Mar 2023

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for small samples, you can follow this decision tree above, For larger samples CLT will apply so you can use z-statistic


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