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The document is a tutorial for a statistical inference course, outlining key concepts such as the differences between population and sample, sample variance and population variance, and types of sampling. It includes exercises on calculating probabilities, means, variances, and understanding sampling distributions. Additionally, it addresses the use of sample statistics to estimate population parameters.

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The document is a tutorial for a statistical inference course, outlining key concepts such as the differences between population and sample, sample variance and population variance, and types of sampling. It includes exercises on calculating probabilities, means, variances, and understanding sampling distributions. Additionally, it addresses the use of sample statistics to estimate population parameters.

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STATISTICAL INFERENCE 1: HSTS111

TUTORIAL 1

1. Contrast each of the following terms:


(a) Population and Sample
(b) Sample variance and Population variance
(c) Probability sampling and Non-probability sampling
(d) Estimator and estimate
(e) Deductive statistics and Inductive statistics

2. Consider the population with the following distribution:

𝑥 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
𝑃(𝑋 = 𝑥) 𝑘 2𝑘 3𝑘 4𝑘 5𝑘 6𝑘 7𝑘

(a) Find the value of 𝑘.


(b) Calculate the mean, mod and median of 𝑋.
(c) Determine the variance of 𝑋.
(d) Determine the coefficient of skewness and comment.

3. What sample statistic is used to estimate each of the following a population


parameter? Give reasons for each of your answers.
(a) Population mean
(b) Population proportion
(c) Population variance
(d) Population median

4. Briefly explain what you understand sampling distributions.

END OF TUTORIAL

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