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PSY520-Topic 4 Exercises Jones-2018 Chapter 9-12 9.7 Define the sampling distribution of the mean. Probability of the means for all possible random samples of a given size from some population. 9.8 Specify three important properties of the sampling distribution of the mean. 1. The mean of the sampling distribution equals the mean of the population. 2. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution, that is, the standard error of the mean, equals the standard deviation of the population divided by the square root of the sample size. An important implication of this formula is the larger sample size translates into a sampling distribution with a smaller variability, allowing more precise generalizations from the samples to populations. The standard error of the mean serves as a rough measure of the average amount by which sample means deviate from the mean of the sampling distribution or from the population mean. 3. According to the central limit theorem, regardless of the shape of the population, the shape of the sampling distribution approximates a normal curve if the sample size is sufficiently large. Depending on the degree of the non-normality in a parent population, a sample size of between 25 and 100 is sufficiently large. 9.9 If we took a random sample of 35 subjects from some population, the associated sampling distribution of the mean would have the following properties (true or false). a. Shape would approximate a normal curve. True, the sampling distribution of the mean should always approximate a normal curve. b. Mean would equal the one sample mean. False, there is a chance that one sample mean could equal the mean but not 100 percent of the time. c. Shape would approximate the shape of the population. False, the shape of the sampling distribution of the mean is normal for a sample size above 25. Therefore the shape should represent a normal distribution regardless of the shape of the population distribution. d. Compared to the population variability, the variability would be reduced by a factor equal to the square root of 35. False, the standard deviation of the population would be reduced by a factor equal to the square root of 35, giving the standard error of the mean, but not the population variability. e. Mean would equal the population mean. True, the mean of all sample means always equals the population mean f. Variability would equal the population variability. False, variability should be smaller in sampling distributions than in the population. 9.13 Given a sample size of 36, how large does the population standard deviation have to be in order for the standard error to be xbar=/(n)^.5 xbar=standard error of the mean = standard deviation of the population n= sample size=35 a. 1=xbar 1=/(35)^.5=> =5.916 b. 2=xbar 2=/(35^.5=> =11.832 c. 5=xbar 5=/(35^.5=> =29.58 d. 100=xbar 100=/(35^.5=> =591.608 9.14 a. A random sample size of 144 is taken from the local population of grade-school children. Each child estimates the number of hours per week spent watching TV. At this point, what can be said about the sample distribution? That the sample size is 144 and we can assume that the distribution is going to be normal. b. Assume that a standard deviation, , of 8 hours describes the TV estimates for the local population of schoolchild

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