Conservationists have despaired over destruction of tropical rain forest by logging, clearing, and burning." these words begin a report on a statistical study of the effects of logging in borneo. here are data on the number of tree species in 12 unlogged forest plots and 9 similar plots logged 8 years earlier:
col1 unlogged 2218 222015121 13 13 1913 19 15
col2 logged 17 4 181418151510 12 use the data to give a 90% confidence interval for the difference in mean number of species between unlogged and logged plots. compute degrees of freedom using the conservative methoo. interval: