1. A sociologist wants to estimate the average age at marriage for women in New England in the early eighteenth century. She finds within her state archives marriage records for a large Puritan village for the years 1700-1730. She then takes a sample of those records, noting the age of the bride for each. The average age in the sample is 24.1 years. The sociologist estimates the average age of brides at marriage for the population to be between 23.5 and 24.7 years.

Address the following questions:

a Identify the population of interest.

b Identify the sample.

c Identify the sample statistic being used to make an inference on the population mean.

d Fill out the table below about the estimate for the population mean.

Lower Limit:

Upper Limit:

Are your answer above descriptive or inferential statistics?