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Q118Section III (Statistics)118 of 190

The χn−12\chi^2_{n-1} null distribution for the sample-variance test statistic requires normality

Suppose {X1,X2,…,Xn}\{X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n\} is a random sample from the distribution of X with mean μ\mu and variance σ2\sigma^2. The test statistic to test H0:σ2=σ02H_0:\sigma^2=\sigma_0^2 against H1:σ2>σ02H_1:\sigma^2>\sigma_0^2 is given by Tn=∑(Xi−Xˉ)2/σ02T_n=\sum(X_i-\bar X)^2/\sigma_0^2. Then the null distribution of TnT_n is:

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