Refer to the population of billionaires. Select 100 random samples of size n = 5 from this population [Excel instructions]. Use the last four digits of your SSN as the Random Seed when generating random numbers.
1) Compute the mean and variance
of each sample.
2) Construct a histogram
of the original population, and then of the 100 sample means. Write a short
paragraph
comparing and contrasting
these distributions.
3) Compute the mean of the
population and the mean of the 100 sample means. Are the values similar?
Should they be?
4) Repeat parts 1-3 using
100 samples of size n = 30. How are the results different?
5) Explain briefly what
you would expect to happen to each characteristic of the sampling distribution
of the sample mean
if you took more samples
(say 500, or 1000), with the size of each sample remaining fixed.
a) the mean of the sampling distribution.
b) the variance of the sampling distribution.
c) the shape of the sampling distribution.