Question: 3.8 A sampling experiment. Let us illustrate sampling variability in a small sample from a small population. Ten of the 25 club members listed below

3.8 A sampling experiment. Let us illustrate sampling variability in a small sample from a small population. Ten of the 25 club members listed below are female. Their names are marked with asterisks in the list. The club chooses 5 members at random to receive free trips to the national convention.

Alonso Darwin Herrnstein Myrdal Vogt*

Binet* Epstein Jimenez* Perez* Went

Blumenbach Ferri Luo Spencer* Wilson

Chase* Gonzales* Moll* Thomson Yerkes

Chen* Gupta Morales* Toulmin Zimmer

(a) Label the sampling frame starting with '01'.Draw one SRS of 5 starting at line 117 of Table A.Then draw 19 SRSs of size 5, using a different part of TableA each time. Record the number of females in each of your samples. Make a histogram like that in Figure3.1 to display your results. What is the average number of females in your 20 samples?

line 11738167 98532 62183 70632 23417 26185 41448 75532

line 11873190 32533 04470 29669 84407 90785 65956 86382

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