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Random Sampling
Population
 Random sample:
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Independent variables
Same probability distribution
Statistics
 Point estimate
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Examples
Mean  of a single population
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 Variance  of a single population
 Difference in means of two population
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1   2
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Unbiasedness
An estimator  of some unknown
quantity  is said to be unbiased if the
procedure that yields  has the
property that, were it used repeatedly
the long-term average of these
estimates would be .
 That is to say, E() = .
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Example 1
Given X = (5.8, 4.4, 8.7, 7.6, 3.1)
 The Sample Mean X
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 The Sample Median X
 The 20% trimmed mean Xtr ( 20)
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Example 2
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Sample Variance
n
S2 
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2
(
X

X
)
 i
i 1
n 1
Expectation of Sample Variance
E(S )  
2
2
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Variance of a Point Estimator
MVUE – Smallest variance estimator
 Theorem
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If X1,…Xn is a random sample of size n
form a normal distribution with mean 
2
and variance  , then the sample mean X
is the MVUE for 
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Example 1
V( X)  
(continued)
2
n
~
2
V ( X)  
V( Xtr ( 20) )  
2
0.6n
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