If we flip three coins at the same time, the population of the number of resulting heads has a mean of 1.5 and a standard deviation of .71. Assume that many samples of size n are taken from a large population of sets of coin flips and that the mean number of heads is computed for each sample.
a) Find the mean and standard deviation (to 4 decimal places) of the resulting distribution of sample means for n = 36.
b) Find the mean and standard deviation (to 4 decimal places) of the resulting distribution of sample means for n = 400.
Let , X be the number of heads.
Here ,
If X has a normal distribution with mean and , then the sampling distribution of sample mean has also normal distribution with mean and standard deviation
i.e.If , then , for large n
Where , and
a) Since , n=36
Therefore, the mean and standard deviation of the resulting distribution of sample means is ,
a) Since , n=400
Therefore, the mean and standard deviation of the resulting distribution of sample means is ,
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