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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-1
Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach
7th Edition
Chapter 7Introduction to
Sampling Distributions
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-2
Chapter Goals
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
Define the concept of sampling error
Determine the mean and standard deviation for the sampling distribution of the sample mean, x
Determine the mean and standard deviation for the sampling distribution of the sample proportion, p
Describe the Central Limit Theorem and its importance
Apply sampling distributions for both x and p
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-3
Sampling Error
Sample Statistics are used to estimate Population Parameters
ex: X is an estimate of the population mean, μ
Problems:
Different samples provide different estimates of the population parameter
Sample results have potential variability, thus sampling error exits
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-4
Calculating Sampling Error
Sampling Error:
The difference between a value (a statistic) computed from a sample and the corresponding value (a parameter) computed from a population
Example: (for the mean)
where:
μ - xError Sampling
mean population μmean samplex
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-5
Review
Population mean: Sample Mean:
N
xμ i
where:
μ = Population mean
x = sample mean
xi = Values in the population or sample
N = Population size
n = sample size
n
xx i
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-6
Example
If the population mean is μ = 98.6 degrees and a sample of n = 5 temperatures yields a sample mean of = 99.2 degrees, then the sampling error is
degrees0.698.699.2μx
x
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-7
Sampling Errors
Different samples will yield different sampling errors
The sampling error may be positive or negative ( may be greater than or less than μ)
The expected sampling error decreases as the
sample size increases
x
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-8
Sampling Distribution
A sampling distribution is a distribution of the possible values of a statistic for a given size sample selected from a population
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-9
Developing a Sampling Distribution
Assume there is a population …
Population size N=4
Random variable, x,
is age of individuals
Values of x: 18, 20,
22, 24 (years)
A B C D
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-10
.3
.2
.1
0 18 20 22 24
A B C DUniform Distribution
P(x)
x
(continued)
Summary Measures for the Population Distribution:
Developing a Sampling Distribution
214
24222018
N
xμ i
2.236N
μ)(xσ
2i
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1st 2nd Observation Obs 18 20 22 24
18 18,18 18,20 18,22 18,24
20 20,18 20,20 20,22 20,24
22 22,18 22,20 22,22 22,24
24 24,18 24,20 24,22 24,24
16 possible samples (sampling with replacement)
Now consider all possible samples of size n=2
1st 2nd Observation Obs 18 20 22 24
18 18 19 20 21
20 19 20 21 22
22 20 21 22 23
24 21 22 23 24
(continued)
Developing a Sampling Distribution
16 Sample Means
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-12
1st 2nd Observation Obs 18 20 22 24
18 18 19 20 21
20 19 20 21 22
22 20 21 22 23
24 21 22 23 24
Sampling Distribution of All Sample Means
18 19 20 21 22 23 240
.1
.2
.3 P(x)
x
Sample Means Distribution
16 Sample Means
_
Developing a Sampling Distribution
(continued)
(no longer uniform)
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Summary Measures of this Sampling Distribution:
Developing aSampling Distribution
(continued)
2116
24211918
N
xμ i
x
1.5816
21)-(2421)-(1921)-(18
N
)μx(σ
222
2xi
x
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-14
Comparing the Population with its Sampling Distribution
18 19 20 21 22 23 240
.1
.2
.3 P(x)
x 18 20 22 24
A B C D
0
.1
.2
.3
PopulationN = 4
P(x)
x_
1.58σ 21μ xx 2.236σ 21μ
Sample Means Distributionn = 2
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-15
For any population, the average value of all possible sample means computed from
all possible random samples of a given size from the population is equal to the population mean:
The standard deviation of the possible sample means computed from all random samples of size n is equal to the population standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size:
Properties of a Sampling Distribution
μμx
n
σσx
Theorem 1
Theorem 2
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-16
If the Population is Normal
If a population is normal with mean μ and standard deviation σ, the sampling distribution
of is also normally distributed with
and
x
μμx n
σσx
Theorem 3
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-17
z-value for Sampling Distributionof x
Z-value for the sampling distribution of :
where: = sample mean
= population mean
= population standard deviation
n = sample size
xμσ
n
σμ)x(
z
x
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-18
Finite Population Correction
Apply the Finite Population Correction if: the sample is large relative to the population
(n is greater than 5% of N)
and… Sampling is without replacement
Then
1NnN
n
σ
μ)x(z
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-19
Normal Population Distribution
Normal Sampling Distribution (has the same mean)
Sampling Distribution Properties
The sample mean is an unbiased estimator
x
x
μμx
μ
xμ
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-20
The sample mean is a consistent estimator
(the value of x becomes closer to μ as n increases):
Sampling Distribution Properties
Larger sample size
Small sample size
x
(continued)
nσ/σx
μ
x
x
Population
As n increases,
decreases
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-21
If the Population is not Normal
We can apply the Central Limit Theorem:
Even if the population is not normal, …sample means from the population will be
approximately normal as long as the sample size is large enough
…and the sampling distribution will have
andμμx n
σσx
Theorem 4
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n↑
Central Limit Theorem
As the sample size gets large enough…
the sampling distribution becomes almost normal regardless of shape of population
x
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-23
Population Distribution
Sampling Distribution (becomes normal as n increases)
Central Tendency
Variation
(Sampling with replacement)
x
x
Larger sample size
Smaller sample size
If the Population is not Normal(continued)
Sampling distribution properties:
μμx
n
σσx
xμ
μ
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-24
How Large is Large Enough?
For most distributions, n > 30 will give a sampling distribution that is nearly normal
For fairly symmetric distributions, n > 15 is sufficient
For normal population distributions, the sampling distribution of the mean is always normally distributed
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-25
Example
Suppose a population has mean μ = 8 and standard deviation σ = 3. Suppose a random sample of size n = 36 is selected.
What is the probability that the sample mean is between 7.8 and 8.2?
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-26
Example
Solution:
Even if the population is not normally distributed, the central limit theorem can be used (n > 30)
… so the sampling distribution of is approximately normal
… with mean = μ = 8
…and standard deviation
(continued)
x
xμ
0.536
3
n
σσx
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-27
Example
Solution (continued) -- find z-scores:(continued)
0.31080.4)zP(-0.4
363
8-8.2
nσ
μ- μ
363
8-7.8P 8.2) μ P(7.8 x
x
z7.8 8.2 -0.4 0.4
Sampling Distribution
Standard Normal Distribution .1554
+.1554
Population Distribution
??
??
?????
??? Sample Standardize
8μ 8μx 0μz x x
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-28
Population Proportions, π
π = the proportion of the population having
some characteristic
Sample proportion ( p ) provides an estimate of π :
If two outcomes, p has a binomial distribution
size sample
sampletheinsuccessesofnumber
n
xp
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Sampling Distribution of p
Approximated by a
normal distribution if:
where
and
(where π = population proportion)
Sampling DistributionP( p )
.3
.2
.1 0
0 . 2 .4 .6 8 1 p
πμp n
π)π(1σp
5π)n(1
5nπ
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-30
z-Value for Proportions
If sampling is without replacement
and n is greater than 5% of the
population size, then must use
the finite population correction
factor:
1N
nN
n
π)π(1σp
nπ)π(1
πp
σ
πpz
p
Standardize p to a z value with the formula:
pσ
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-31
Example
If the true proportion of voters who support
Proposition A is π = .4, what is the probability
that a sample of size 200 yields a sample
proportion between .40 and .45?
i.e.: if π = .4 and n = 200, what is
P(.40 ≤ p ≤ .45) ?
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Example
if π = .4 and n = 200, what is
P(.40 ≤ p ≤ .45) ?
(continued)
.03464200
.4).4(1
n
π)π(1σp
1.44)zP(0
.03464
.40.45z
.03464
.40.40P.45)pP(.40
Find :
Convert to standard normal:
pσ
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap 7-33
Example
z.45 1.44
.4251
Standardize
Sampling DistributionStandardized
Normal Distribution
if π = .4 and n = 200, what is
P(.40 ≤ p ≤ .45) ?
(continued)
Use standard normal table: P(0 ≤ z ≤ 1.44) = .4251
.40 0p
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Chapter Summary
Discussed sampling error Introduced sampling distributions Described the sampling distribution of the mean
For normal populations Using the Central Limit Theorem
Described the sampling distribution of a proportion
Calculated probabilities using sampling distributions
Discussed sampling from finite populations