STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Variance and Standard Deviation of the Sampling

Distribution of Means
• Consider a population with values ( 2, 5, 7, 8)
• A. Find the population mean
• B. Find the population variance
• C. Find the population standard deviation
• D. Find all possible sample size 2 which can be drawn with
replacement from this population
• E. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of means.
• F. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of means.
• Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.
Observation x x-𝝁 𝒙 − 𝝁𝟐

1 2

2 5

3 7

4 8

σ 𝑥=
෍(𝑥 − 𝜇)2
 Formula

σ𝑥
• 𝜇=
𝑁
σ(𝑥−𝜇)2
• 𝜗2 =
𝑁

σ(𝑥−𝜇)2
• 𝜗=
𝑁
Observation sample x 𝒙 − 𝝁𝒙 (𝒙 − 𝝁𝒙 )𝟐
1 All possible
2
3 of Size 2
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

෍𝑥 = ෍(𝒙 − 𝝁 )𝟐 =
 Formula

σ𝑥 𝜗2
• 𝜇𝑥 𝜗𝑥2 =
𝑛 𝑛

σ(𝑥−𝜇𝑥 )2
• 𝜗𝑥2 =
𝑛

σ(𝑥−𝜇𝑥 )2
• 𝜗𝑥2 =
𝑛
 Example 2

If the sample size is n=2 and the population variance is 7.75 what is
the variance of sampling distribution of means is equal to?
• Consider the population of four values (3,4,8,9)
• A. Find the population mean
• B. Find the population variance
• C. Find the population standard deviation
• D. Find all possible sample size 2 which can be drawn with
replacement from this population
• E. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of means.
• F. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of means.
• Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means.