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Suppose we take a random sample of 50 from the population of the heights of all first-year students in higher education, and we find that the sample mean height is \(\bar x\) = 171.2 cm.
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Rees, D.G. (1989). Confidence interval estimation. In: Essential Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7260-6_9
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