members jesus bernardo mendoza and juancho rodriguez

WORKSHOP
“Sampling Distributions (small samples) and Estimation by Confidence Interval”

• If a researcher wishes to obtain the mean income of a certain area correct to within U$100 with
a probability of 95%, what size random sample should he take, if knows that standard deviation
of the incomes is U$ 600?
• Heights for teenage boys and girls were calculated. The mean height for the sample of 12 boys
was 174cm and the variance was 62. For the sample of 12 girls was 166 cm and the variance was
65.
• What is the 95% confidence interval on the difference between population?
• Do you think the mean difference in the population could be about 4? Why or why not?

• Dr. O. D. Bomza Wey, physician for the Miami Snow basketball team, is interested in the
percentage of body fat among the Snow´s 15 players. Bomza tests 5 players , obtaining a
sample mean of 8,6 percent. If percentage of body fat is known to be normally distributed with
a variance of 5 percent squared, what would be the confidence interval of 92%?
• A questionnaire is developed to assess women’s and men’s attitudes toward
using animals in research. One question asks whether animal research is wrong
and is answered on a 7-point scale. Assume that in the samples, the mean for
women is 5, the mean for men is 4, and the standard deviation for both groups is
1.5. Assume the scores are normally distributed and that 12 women and 12 men are
selected randomly, what is the probability that the mean of the women will be
more than 2 points higher than the mean of the men?
• A population is known to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of
2.8. (a) Compute the 95% confidence interval on the mean based on the
following sample of nine: 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21. (b) Now compute the
99% confidence interval using the same data.
• A person claims to be able to predict the outcome of flipping a coin. This
person is correct 22 times of 35. Compute the 95% confidence interval on the
proportion of times this person can predict coin flips correctly. What
conclusion can you draw about this test of his ability to predict the future?
• Measurements are made on the lengths, in mm, of a sample of twenty wooden components for
self-assembly furniture. Assume that these may be regarded as twenty independent
observations from a normal distribution with unknown mean µ and unknown variance σ 2 . The
data are as follows. 581 580 581 577 580 581 577 579 579 578 581 583 577 578 582 581 582
580 582 579.
• Find a 95% confidence interval for the standard deviation.
• Find a 90% confidence interval for the variance.
• A researcher wants to estimate the proportion of Americans that have sleep deprivation. How
large a sample is needed in order to be 95% confident and within 3% if a) the researcher used a
previous estimate of 60%? b) the researcher doesn’t use a previous estimate?