Suppose you have a random sample {X1, X2, X3} of size n = 3. Consider the following three possible estimators for the population mean u and variance o2 Дi 3D (X1+ X2+ X3)/3 Ti2X1/4 X2/2 X3/4 Дз — (Х+ X,+ X3)/4 (a) What is the bias associated with each estimator? (b) What is the variance associated with each estimator? (c) Does the fact that Var(i3) < Var(1) contradict the statement that X is the minimum variance unbiased estimator? Why or...
Let X1, X2, X3, and X4 be a random sample of observations from a population with mean μ and variance σ2. The observations are independent because they were randomly drawn. Consider the following two point estimators of the population mean μ: 1 = 0.10 X1 + 0.40 X2 + 0.40 X3 + 0.10 X4 and 2 = 0.20 X1 + 0.30 X2 + 0.30 X3 + 0.20 X4 Which of the following statements is true? HINT: Use the definition of...
Estimator properties: 6 Estimators properties 6.1 Exercise 1 In order to estimate the average number of hours that children spend watching tv, a Bernoulli sample of size n = 5 children was selected from a primary school. Let X be the variable that represents the hours spent watching tv, let E(X)-μ the parameter to estimate and var(X-σ2 the variance. Compare the following two proposed estimators Τι 1. Compare the two estimators for u on the basis of their bias 2....
Please give detailed steps. Thank you. 5. Let {X1, X2,..., Xn) denote a random sample of size N from a population d escribed by a random variable X. Let's denote the population mean of X by E(X) - u and its variance by Consider the following four estimators of the population mean μ : 3 (this is an example of an average using only part of the sample the last 3 observations) (this is an example of a weighted average)...
3. (5 marks) Let U be a random variable which has the continuous uniform distribution on the interval I-1, 1]. Recall that this means the density function fu satisfies for(z-a: a.crwise. 1 u(z), -1ss1, a) Find thc cxpccted valuc and the variancc of U. We now consider estimators for the expected value of U which use a sample of size 2 Let Xi and X2 be independent random variables with the same distribution as U. Let X = (X1 +...
7-27. Let X1, X2,..., X, be a random sample of size n from a population with mean u and variance o?. (a) Show that X² is a biased estimator for u?. (b) Find the amount of bias in this estimator. c) What happens to the bias as the sample size n increases?
Question 1. Let Xi, X2, X3, X4 be a random sample from a population X with mean E(X)-? and standard deviation Sd(X)-. Consider the following two estimators for (a) Compute the bias for and ?2 respectively. (c) Which estimator is better? Why?
7.Let X1, X2, X3, and X4 be a random sample of observations from a population with mean μ and variance σ2. Consider the following estimator of μ:⊝1 = 0.15 X1 + 0.35 X2 + 0.20 X3 + 0.30 X4. Is this a biased estimator for the mean? What is the variance of the estimator? Can you find a more efficient estimator?
Question 6: [12 Marks: 5, 3, 41 Let X1, X2, ..., X6 be a random sample from a population following a Gamma distribution with parameters a and B. Consider the following two estimators of the mean (a/b) of this distribution. Ô2 = X And ôz = ž (X1 + X2 + X3) +ś (X4 + X5 + X3) Where I = (X1 + X2 + ... + X6) (a) Determine the sampling distribution of 7 using moment generating functions. (b)...
4. (a) Let Xi,X ,x, be n observations from an N(u2) distribution, and define the estimators (i) Determine whether T and T2 are unbiased estimators of u. 4 points (ii) Compute the variances Var(Ti), and Var(T2). Which is the better estimator T or T2 -and why? [2 points] Determine the maximum likelihood estimator of μ. (iii) [5 points) (b) A manufacturer is testing the performance of two products, A and B. At each of 20 field sites, product A and...