A Simple Confidence interval for the difference of two normal population means with one variance unknown
Abstract
In this paper, asymptotic coverage probabilities and expected lengths of confidence intervals for the difference between the means of two normal populations with one variance unknown are derived. The Theorems show that our proposed confidence interval, which is easy to use, performs as well as the existing confidence intervals.
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