Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5.2, Problem 5.13LM
Refer to Exercise 5.3.
- a. Find the sampling distribution of s2.
- b. Find the population variance σ2.
- c. Show that s2 is an unbiased estimator of σ2.
- d. Find the sampling distribution of the sample standard deviation s.
- e. Show that s is a biased estimator of σ.
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