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Article #132Normal distribution probability problem.
From: gknight
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1986 02:37
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1986 02:37
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Two questions from the same set of facts. Assume you have two populations, A and B, for which you have full information (i.e., the value of every event in each population). 1) If you draw a sample of size n = 1 from each population, what is the probability that the sample from population A is larger than the sample from population B? 2) Now assume the only information you have about the two populations is based on samples of, say, size n = 10. Thus you have the mean and standard deviation of a sample from each population, but know nothing about the individual events within the populations. Now what is the probability that a single sample drawn from population A will be larger than one drawn from population B? I think the answer to (1) is simply a z-value and the probability is the area under the normal curve. But I haven't a clue on how to work it out if you only have sample data. I'm interested in theory as well as an algorithm. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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