QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON MTH 4106

Assignment 9

Introduction to Statistics
For handing in on 1920 March 2013

You should attempt all of these questions, as they are designed to help you to learn and understand the material in the course. The Feedback question is the one for handing in. Write your name, student number and group number at the top of your answer before handing it in. Staple all the pages together. Either (i) hand it to your allocated tutor when (s)he asks for it during your allocated Minitab laboratory session on Tuesday 19 March 2013, or (ii) post it in the red post-box on the ground oor of the Maths building before 1400 on Wednesday 20 March 2013. If you want help on any of the other questions, or want to check that you have done them correctly, you may ask any tutor during your laboratory session or ask me in any of my oce hours. 1 Some books dene a variance estimator V by 1 V = n
n

)2 . ( Xi X
i=1

Find the bias of V as an estimator of 2 . 2 A random sample of n observations, Xi i = 1, 2, . . . , n, is chosen from a population with unknown mean and unknown variance 2 . From this sample and the sample variance S 2 are calculated. Another random the sample mean X X and S 2 calculated. sample of m observations, Yj j = 1, . . . , m, is chosen and Y Y The two sets of observations are then pooled and the mean is estimated by + mY nX n+m and the variance 2 by
2 2 (n 1)SX + (m 1)SY . n+m2 Show that these two estimators are unbiased estimators of and 2 respectively.

3 The weight of luggage that aircraft passengers take with them is distributed with mean 20kg and standard deviation 5kg. A certain type of aircraft carries 100 passengers. What is the probability that the total weight of the passengers luggage exceeds 2150kg? 4 From a population of about 70,000 female students at a certain university in the U.S.A., twenty were chosen at random. Their heights were recorded to the nearest inch, as shown in the following table. height (inches) 62 frequency 1 63 1 64 2 65 5 66 4 67 4 68 2 69 1

Estimate the mean height of female students at this university. Give the estimated standard error of your estimate. 5 (Feedback) Write a report on Part 5 of Practical 8. Your report should include (a) your chosen distribution, its mean and variance; (b) the rst graph; (c) an account of what you did to construct the rst graph; (d) comments on what this graph shows, and whether or not this agrees with what theory predicts; (e) the second graph; (f) an account of what you did to construct the second graph; (g) comments on what this graph shows, and whether or not this agrees with what theory predicts.