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Assignment Two

This document is an assignment for the course STAT 443: Theory Sampling at the University of Ghana. It contains instructions for submission and outlines three questions related to the unbiased estimation of population means and the variance of estimators. Students are required to demonstrate their understanding of these statistical concepts by providing proofs and interpretations.

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Assignment Two

This document is an assignment for the course STAT 443: Theory Sampling at the University of Ghana. It contains instructions for submission and outlines three questions related to the unbiased estimation of population means and the variance of estimators. Students are required to demonstrate their understanding of these statistical concepts by providing proofs and interpretations.

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UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE

STAT 443: THEORY SAMPLING

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Instructions:

1. Answer all questions


2. Work to be submitted on 4th February 2021 at 1700hrs

Questions

1) Show that the sample mean is an unbiased estimator of the population mean (4 marks)
2) Derive the variance of the mean in (1) above and show that it is unbiased. (7 marks)
3) Consider a population of size . The values of are 0, 2 and 1 for respectively.
̅
Consider the following two estimators of the population mean for simple random sampling
without replacement of size 2 from the population:
i. ̅ the sample mean

ii. where ( ) ( ) ( )

{
where ( ) ( ) ( ). Show that
i. Both ̅ and are unbiased. (8 marks)
ii. Variance of ̅ is greater than variance of and interpret the results (6 marks)

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