Let
and
be the number of successes in variates taken from two populations. Define
The estimator of the difference is then . Doing a so-called -transform,
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where
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The standard error is
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References
Gonick, L. and Smith, W. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper Perennial, pp. 162-171,
1993.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
Population Comparison
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