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Q163Section III (Statistics)163 of 180

Sample size for a specified margin of error

If population size NN is very large, then the approximate value of the minimum sample size for estimating the population mean with desired accuracy under SRSWOR design is (where α\alpha and dd satisfy P[ ∣Y‾−y‾∣<d ]≥1−α\mathbb{P}[\,|\overline{Y}-\overline{y}|<d\,]\ge1-\alpha):

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