Question: Open https://media.pearsoncmg.com/cmg/pmmg_mml_shared/animations/statistics/west_applets_HTML5/popsample.html Brief explanation of how the mean and median could be computed without even knowing the size of the population for a uniform distribution
Open https://media.pearsoncmg.com/cmg/pmmg_mml_shared/animations/statistics/west_applets_HTML5/popsample.html
- Brief explanation of how the mean and median could be computed without even knowing the size of the population for a uniform distribution like the one displayed.
- Enter "20" into the "Sample size" box and the click the "Sample" button in the upper left corner.(You should see a simulation of a sample of 20 members of the population being chosen.)What is the mean of the sample?
- Generate a new sample of 20 by clicking the "Sample" button again.What is the mean of the sample?
- Were the means of the two different samples the same?Do you think that this is unusual?Explain why or why not.
- Did either of the sample means equal the population mean?Do you think that this is unusual? Explain why or why not.
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