STAT 400 Lecture AL1 Examples for 5.6 Spring 2015 Dalpiaz Population: mean , standard deviation . Random Sample: X 1 , X 2 , … , X n . or X 1 , X 2 , … , X n are i.i.d. E(X 1 + X 2 + … + X n) = n , SD(X 1 + X 2 + … + X n) = σ n . If the sampling is done without replacement from a finite population of size N, then SD(X) = 1NN nn σ . The sample mean nnX...XX21X. E(X) = , SD(X) = n σ. If the sampling is done without replacement from a finite population of size N, then SD(X) = 1NN nn σ. X = + chance error. LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS ( LAW OF AVERAGES ): As the sample size, n, increases, the sample mean, X, “tends to gets closer and closer” to the population mean . As the number of trials, n, increases, the sample proportion of “successes”, n X, “tends to gets closer and closer” to the probability of “success” p.CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM: If the sample size, n, is large, the sampling distribution of the sample total is approximately normal with mean n and standard deviation σ n . Therefore, ZXσ nμn . If the population itself is normally distributed, the sampling distribution of the sample total is normal for any sample size n. If the sample size, n, is large, the sampling distribution of the sample mean, X, is approximately normal with mean and standard deviation n σ. Therefore, ZXnμ σ. If the population itself is normally distributed, the sampling distribution of the sample mean, X, is normal for any sample size n. Case 1. Any population n – large Case 2. Normal population Any n Case 3. Population NOT Normal n – small 1. A student commission wants to know the mean amount of money spent by college students for textbooks in one semester. Suppose the population mean is $450 and the population standard deviation is $40. A random sample of 625 students is taken. a) What is the probability that the sample mean will be less than $452? b) What is the probability that the sample mean will be within $2 of $450? That is, what is the probability that the sample mean will be between $448 and $452? c) What is the probability that the sample mean will be within $10 of $450? That is, what is the probability that the sample mean will be between $440 and $460?2. The amount of sulfur in the daily emissions from a power plant has a normal distribution with mean of 134 pounds and a standard deviation of 22 pounds. For a random sample of 5 days, find the probability that the total amount of sulfur emissions will exceed 700 pounds. 3. An economist wishes to estimate the average family income in a certain population. The population standard deviation is known to be $4,500 , and the economist uses a random sample of 225 families. What is the probability that the sample mean will fall within $600 of the population mean? 4. Forty-eight measurements are recorded to several decimal places. Each of these 48 numbers is rounded off to the nearest integer. The sum of the original 48 numbers is approximated by the sum of these integers. If we assume that the errors made by rounding off are i.i.d. and have uniform distribution over the interval 21,21, compute approximately the probability that the sum of the integers is within 2 units of the true
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