What if the variables you are studying are not normally distributed? Here is your challenge — if the population is not normal, can you make any inferences about that population from your random samples?

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In many of the problems from the last unit, you were given information about the population. For many of the variables, it was assumed the variable had a normal distribution. What if the variables you are studying are not normally distributed? Here is your challenge — if the population is not normal, can you make any inferences about that population from your random samples?

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You are going to be creating histograms based on sample means of equal sizes. Click on this link to access the workbook for the discussion. The samples will be of size 5 (n = 5) and size 25 (n = 25). The histogram is going to have a bin width of 2.