
Fundamentals of Statistics (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134510026
Author: Sullivan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8.1, Problem 32AYU
Sampling Distributions The following data represent the running lengths (in minutes) of the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture for the years 2004–2009.
2004: Million Dollar Baby | 132 |
2005: Crash | 112 |
2006: The Departed | 151 |
2007: No Country for Old Men | 122 |
2008: Slumdog Millionaire | 120 |
2009: The Hurt Locker | 131 |
Source: The Internet Movie Database |
- a. Compute the population
mean , μ. - b. List all possible samples with size n = 2. There should be 6C2 = 15 samples.
- c. Construct a sampling distribution for the mean by listing the sample means and their corresponding probabilities.
- d. Compute the mean of the sampling distribution.
- e. Compute the
probability that the sample mean is within 5 minutes of the population mean running time. - f. Repeat parts (b)–(e) using samples of size n = 3. Comment on the effect of increasing the
sample size .
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