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Example 1: The population from which samples are selected is {1,2,3,4,5,6}. This population has a mean of 3.5 and a standard deviation of 1.70783. The next display shows a histogram of the population.

Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

We have previously discussed the importance of estimating uncertainty in our measurements and incorporating it into data analysis 1. To know the extent to which we can generalize our observations, we ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Let $X(t), -\infty < t < \infty$, be a stationary time series with mean cx. Let $0 < \tau_{1} < \tau_{2 ...

In the ranked set sampling algorithm a sample of size n2 is available. The data can be ranked without measurements. A subsample of size n is created using the information given by the ranks. The ...