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Normal Curve, Z- and T-Statistic, and Confidence Intervals

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1. What are the characteristics of a normal curve? Give 3 examples of processes, which could produce normally, distributed outcome.

2. What are the differences between z-statistics and t-statistics?

3. What do confidence intervals represent? Please use an example to complement your response.

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