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Homework Statement
Why is it normality is much more important for making a confidence interval for the mean than for the variance?
You do use the estimated variance to make the mean confidence interval. So why is the mean confidence interval more robust against the normality assumtion?
[tex] \mu = \bar{x} +- t_{\alpha}\frac{S}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex]
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