A biologist is studying the effects that applying insecticide to a fruit farm has on the local bat population. She collects 23 bats and finds the mean weight of this sample to be 503.4 grams. Assuming the selected bats are a random sample, she concludes that because the sample mean is an unbiased estimator of the population mean, the mean weight o bats in the population is also 503.4 grams. Explain why s is an incorrect pretation of an urb sedes mat ?.
A biologist is studying the effects that applying insecticide to a fruit farm has on the...
A biologist is studying the levels of heavy metal contaminants among a population of the South Nakaratuan Chubby Bat. The biologist is interested in constructing a simple linear regression model to investigate the relationship between weight of an animal and the level of heavy metal contamination. In the proposed regression model the level of contaminant is the response variable and weight is the explanatory variable. The contaminant level is measured in parts per billion (ppb) and weight in grams. A...
Assume that a simple random sample has been selected from a normally distributed population. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, also known as the Kitti's hog-nosed bat (or Craseonycteris thonglongyai). Such bats are roughly the size of a large bumblebee. Listed below are ten weights (in grams) from a sample of these bats. 1.9 1.6 2 2 1.8 1.5 1.5 1.3 2.3 2.1 a) Use a 0.05 significance level and test the claim that these bats come from...
Dr. Olsen is a population biologist who has been studying white oak trees in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania for many years. Every year of his study, he has collected seeds (acorns) from two populations of White Oaks. For each year he wants to know if there is a difference in the size of the acorns between the two populations. Here is the data for the 2015 Acorn Study - click the link, it will take you to a Google...