SunshineCity,whichattractsprimarilyretiredpeople,has90,000residentswithameanage of 72yearsandastandarddeviationof12years.Theagedistributionisskewedtotheleft.A random sampleof100residentsofSunshineCityhas y = 70 and s = 11. (a) Describethecenter andspreadofthe(i)populationdistribution,(ii)sampledatadistri- bution. Whatshapedoesthesampledatadistributionprobablyhave?Why?
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SunshineCity,whichattractsprimarilyretiredpeople,has90,000residentswithameanage of 72yearsandastandarddeviationof12years.Theagedistributionisskewedtotheleft.A random sampleof100residentsofSunshineCityhas y = 70 and s = 11.
(a) Describethecenter andspreadofthe(i)populationdistribution,(ii)sampledatadistri-
bution. Whatshapedoesthesampledatadistributionprobablyhave?Why?
(b) Findthecenterandspreadofthesamplingdistributionof Y for n = 100. Whatshape does ithaveandwhatdoesitdescribe?
(c) Explainwhyitwouldnotbeunusualtosampleapersonofage60inSunshineCity,but it wouldbehighlyunusualforthesamplemeantobe60,forarandomsampleof100 residents.
(d) Describethe sampling distributionof Y : (i)fora random sampleofsize n = 1; (ii)ifyou sample all90,000residents.
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Foundations Of Statistics For Data Scientists With R And Python
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Authors: Alan Agresti