You are thinking of employing a t-procedure to test hypotheses about the mean of a population using a significance level of 0.05. You suspect the distribution of the population is not Normal and may be moderately skewed.
Which of the following statements is correct?

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You are thinking of employing a t-procedure to test hypotheses about the mean of a population using a significance level of 0.05. You suspect the distribution of the population is not Normal and may be moderately skewed.

Which of the following statements is correct?

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You may use the t-procedure, but you should probably claim the significance level is only 0.10.

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You may not use the t-procedure, because t-procedures are robust to non-Normality for confidence intervals but not for tests of hypotheses.

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You may use the t-procedure, provided your sample size is large, say, at least 50.

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You should not use the t-procedure, because the population does not have a normal distribution.

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