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1 Essential Statistics Sampling Distributions
Chapter 10 Sampling Distributions Essential Statistics Chapter 10 Chapter 10

2 Population and Sample Researchers often want to answer questions about some large group of individuals, this group is called the population Often the researchers cannot measure all individuals in the population, so they collect and measure a sample. The researchers then use statistical techniques to make conclusions about the population based on the sample Essential Statistics Chapter 7

3 Parameter vs. Statistic
Essential Statistics Parameter vs. Statistic The mean of a population is denoted by µ – a parameter. The mean of a sample is denoted by – a statistic. is used to estimate µ. From Seeing Through Statistics, 2nd Edition by Jessica M. Utts. Essential Statistics Chapter 10 Chapter 10

4 Connection Between Sample Mean & Population Mean
Population data: millions of test score Sample: N=100 Essential Statistics Chapter 10

5 Connection Between Sample Mean & population Mean
◙ Why sample mean to be trusted to get population mean? ◙ Sample means vary around the population mean ◙ They don’t vary much and not far from the population mean Essential Statistics Chapter 10

6 The Law of Large Numbers
Consider sampling at random from a population with true mean µ. As the number of (independent) observations sampled increases, the mean of the sample gets closer and closer to the true mean of the population. ( gets closer to µ ) Essential Statistics Chapter 10

7 Distribution of Sampling Means
The sampling distribution of is the distribution of values taken by the in all possible samples of the same size (n) from the same population to describe a distribution we need to specify the shape, center, and spread we will discuss the distribution of the sample means (x-bar) Essential Statistics Chapter 10

8 Does This Wine Smell Bad?
Case Study Does This Wine Smell Bad? Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is sometimes present in wine, causing “off-odors”. Winemakers want to know the odor threshold – the lowest concentration of DMS that the human nose can detect. Different people have different thresholds, and of interest is the mean threshold in the population of all adults. Essential Statistics Chapter 10

9 Does This Wine Smell Bad?
Case Study Does This Wine Smell Bad? Suppose the mean threshold of all adults is =25 micrograms of DMS per liter of wine, with a standard deviation of =7 micrograms per liter and the threshold values follow a bell-shaped (normal) curve. Essential Statistics Chapter 10

10 Sampling Distribution
What about the mean (average) of a sample of n adults? What values would be expected? Answer this by thinking: “What would happen if we took many samples of n subjects from this population?” (let’s say that n=10 subjects make up a sample) take a large number of samples of n=10 subjects from the population calculate the sample mean (x-bar) for each sample make a histogram of the values of x-bar examine the graphical display for shape, center, spread Essential Statistics Chapter 10

11 Does This Wine Smell Bad?
Case Study Does This Wine Smell Bad? Mean threshold of all adults is =25 micrograms per liter, with a standard deviation of =7 micrograms per liter and the threshold values follow a bell-shaped (normal) curve. Many (1000) repetitions of sampling n=10 adults from the population were simulated and the resulting histogram of the x-bar values is on the next slide. Essential Statistics Chapter 10

12 Does This Wine Smell Bad?
Case Study Does This Wine Smell Bad? Essential Statistics Chapter 10

13 Mean and Standard Deviation of Sample Means
If numerous samples of size n are taken from a population with mean m and standard deviation  , then the mean of the sampling distribution of is m (the population mean) and the standard deviation is: ( is the population s.d.) Essential Statistics Chapter 10

14 Connection Between Sample Mean & Population Mean
X refer the population distribution refer the sampling distribution of the mean Essential Statistics Chapter 10

15 Mean and Standard Deviation of Sample Means
Since the mean of is m, we say that is an unbiased estimator of m Individual observations have standard deviation , but sample means from samples of size n have standard deviation Averages are less variable than individual observations. Essential Statistics Chapter 10

16 Sampling Distribution of Sample Means
If individual observations have the N(µ, ) distribution, then the sample mean of n independent observations has the N(µ, / ) distribution. “If measurements in the population follow a Normal distribution, then so does the sample mean.” Essential Statistics Chapter 10

17 (Population distribution)
Case Study Does This Wine Smell Bad? Mean threshold of all adults is =25 with a standard deviation of =7, and the threshold values follow a bell-shaped (normal) curve. (Population distribution) Essential Statistics Chapter 10

18 is approximately N(µ, / )
Central Limit Theorem If a random sample of size n is selected from ANY population with mean m and standard deviation  , then when n is large the distribution of the sample mean is approximately Normal: is approximately N(µ, / ) “No matter what distribution the population values follow, the sample mean will follow a Normal distribution if the sample size is large.” Essential Statistics Chapter 10

19 Central Limit Theorem: Sample Size
How large must n be for the CLT to hold? depends on how far the population distribution is from Normal the further from Normal, the larger the sample size needed a sample size of 25 or 30 is typically large enough for any population distribution encountered in practice recall: if the population is Normal, any sample size will work (n≥1) Essential Statistics Chapter 10

20 Central Limit Theorem: Sample Size and Distribution of x-bar
Essential Statistics Chapter 10

21 Chapter 10 home work guide
Write down population distribution N (µ, ). Write down sample means (x-bar) distribution N (µ, / ), n – sample size. When n=1, individual observation, using  calculate z–score When n > 1, sample means ( ) observation, using / calculate z-score. The z value will increased and the corresponding probability will change too. Essential Statistics Chapter 10

22 Video Reference Chapter 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgPmKTdUsE
Essential Statistics Chapter 10


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