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Application of the T-Test in Health Insurance Cost Analysis: Large Data Sets

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2019-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2303-5013 | Journal ISSN: 2303-5005
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Language: English
Page range: 157 - 167
Submitted on: Dec 9, 2019
Accepted on: Dec 19, 2019
Published on: Dec 31, 2019
Published by: Oikos Institut d.o.o.
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 times per year
Keywords:
t-test,
Mann-Whitney test,
health insurance costs,
large samples,
distribution normality,
skewness,
kurtosis
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Public finance and fiscal theory

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