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Basic Concepts On Estimation

The document discusses estimation in statistics including point estimation and interval estimation. It defines key terms like estimator, biasedness, consistency, efficiency, point estimate, interval estimate and confidence interval. It also explains how to construct confidence intervals and interpret confidence levels.

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Basic Concepts On Estimation

The document discusses estimation in statistics including point estimation and interval estimation. It defines key terms like estimator, biasedness, consistency, efficiency, point estimate, interval estimate and confidence interval. It also explains how to construct confidence intervals and interpret confidence levels.

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MODULE 9

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Basic Concepts
on Estimation
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Learning Targets

 Discuss the properties of a good estimator

 Illustrate point and interval estimation

 Distinguish between point and interval estimation

 Enrichment:
- Identify a point estimator for the population mean

- Compute for the interval estimate for a given confidence level


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DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS vs
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

- process of using or analyzing those measures that


quantitatively describe or summarize features from a collection of
information

 INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

- pertains to the process of drawing and making decisions


concerning a given population based on the data obtained from a
sample

- focuses on estimation and hypothesis testing


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Estimation

 A process used to calculate the proposed values for parameters


by using only a random sample from the population.

 Being done because population parameters are usually


unknown and /or the population is infeasible to study

 Note: The results from estimation may not always be accepted


since it is preferred that interpretations and generalizations must
be made using data from the entire population. Thus, it is
necessary to do hypothesis testing.
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Estimate
(Estimator)

POINT ESTIMATE INTERVAL ESTIMATE

- refers to a single value that - gives a range of values within


best determines the proposed which the parameter value
parameter value of the possibly falls
population
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Properties of a Good Estimator

UNBIASEDNESS CONSISTENCY EFFICIENCY

 When the  When the  When the


expectation of all estimate estimate gives
produced a the smallest
estimates taken
relatively small variance.
from samples are standard
equal to the error/deviation
parameter being (possible
estimated. amount of error
of estimating a
population
parameter)
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Point Estimation

 A point estimate is any simple statistic that can be used to represent the
value of a parameter.

 The goal is to find the “best” point estimate.


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Interval Estimation

 It is not always sufficient to estimate the value of a parameter using


a single point estimator because there is doubt about the accuracy
of the point estimate.

 The knowledge of sampling distribution can be used to construct an


interval around the point estimate and state the degree of certainty
(confidence) that the population parameter is within that interval.
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Interval Estimation
 The interval of values that predicts the population parameter is called
an interval estimate or confidence interval. The degree of certainty
that the true parameter falls within the interval is referred to as the
confidence level.

 Confidence levels correspond to probabilities (areas) associated with


the normal curve.
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Interval Estimation

C = confidence level

α =1–C
C/2 C/2
α/2 α/2
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Interval Estimation
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Interval Estimation

90.1% confidence interval is

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