Answer to Question #315368 in Statistics and Probability for Mary

Question

Consider a population consisting of 2, 3, 4, and 6.

1. Compute the mean and variance of the population.

2. List all possible samples of size 2.

Observation

1

2

3 4

5

6

Sample

2,4

2.3

2,6 3,4

(3, 6)/(4, 6)

Construct the sampling distribution of the sample means.

Mean ( overline x )

2.5

3.0