Statistics for Business and Economics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)

13th Edition

ISBN: 9780134456997

Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 5, Problem 5.58LM

Use a statistical software package to generate 100 random samples of size n = 2 from a population characterized by a normal probability distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 10. Compute x ¯ for each sample, and plot a frequency distribution for the 100 values of x ¯ . Repeat this process for n = 5, 10, 30, and 50. How does the fact that the sampled population is normal affect the sampling distribution of x ¯ ?

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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Solution Summary: The author explains how to generate 100 samples of size n=2 using a normal distribution with mean of 100 and standard deviation of 10.

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