数理统计Estimate2(精品·公开课件).pptVIP

* * If the sample comes from a population which has a normal distribution then has a t-distribution there are different t-distributions for different sample sizes for estimating a single mean we use a t-distribution with n-1 degrees of freedom (df) they look like standard normal distributions but stretched out in the tails tn-1 approaches a normal distribution as n gets bigger. For n ≥ 30, there isn’t much difference. * Example: You want to estimate the average income of CEOs in large organizations. You take a sample of 15 companies and obtain a sample mean of