Forbes College, Inc.

Senior High School Department

Rizal Cor. Elizondo St., Legazpi City

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Lesson 7: Sampling Distribution of the Sample Means

No. of Hours: 4

I. OBJECTIVES
∙ Identifies sampling distributions of statistics (sample mean).
∙ Finds the mean and variance of the sampling distribution of the sample mean. ∙ Defines
the sampling distribution of the sample mean for normal population when the variance
is: (a) known (b) unknown

II. DISCUSSION
A. STARTER

Compute for the mean of the set of numbers below. Write your answer on the
space provided in each item. Round off your answers to two decimal places.

1. 1,2,3,4,5
2. 2,5,7,9
3. 3,6,9,12,15
4. 10,20,30,40,50
5. 1,1,1,1,1

B. CONTENT
Definition: A sampling distribution of sample means is a probability distribution
that describes the probability for each mean of all samples with the same sample
size ��.

Activity:
A population consists of 2, 3, and 4. List all the possible samples of size n = 2 with
replacement and compute the mean of each sample.
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Solution:
If you list all the possible samples of size n = 2 drawn from a population of 4 with
elements 2, 3, and 4 you will have 9 samples. The table below shows the 9 samples
and their corresponding means.

This let us learn how to make a probability distribution of the sample means and call it
as the sampling distribution of sample means.

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Finding the Mean and Variance of the Sampling Distribution of Sample Means The
following are formulae needed to compute the mean, variance and standard
deviation of a population and mean, variance, and standard deviation of the
sampling distribution of sample means.

Sampling with Replacement

Example 1: Consider a population consisting of the values 2, 5, and 8.
a. Compute the population mean.
b. Compute the population variance.
c. Find the population standard deviation.
d. List all the possible samples of size n = 2 with replacement and their
corresponding means.
e. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means.
f. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of sample means.

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g. Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means.

Solution:
a. Compute the population mean.
b. Compute the population variance.

Hence, the population variance is 6.

c. Find the population standard deviation.

d. List all the possible samples of size 2 with replacement and their corresponding
means.

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e. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of means.

Hence, the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means is

5. f. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of means.

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 Hence, the variance of the sampling distribution of sample means is 3.

g. Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.

Hence, the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means is

1.73.

Sampling without Replacement

Example 2: Consider a population consisting of the values 1, 3, and 5.

a. Compute the population mean.

b. Compute the population variance.

c. Find the population standard deviation.

d. List all the possible samples of size n = 2 without replacement and their
corresponding means. e. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means.

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f. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of sample means.

g. Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means.

 Solution:

a. Compute the population mean.

Hence, the population mean is 3.

b. Compute the population variance.

Hence, the population variance is 2.67.

c. Find the population standard deviation.

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d. List all the possible samples of size 2 with replacement and their corresponding means.
 e. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of means.

f. Find the variance of the sampling distribution of means.

g. Find the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.

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Take a look at the summary of the examples:

We

can summarize the properties of the sampling distribution below.

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III. REFERENCE
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and sampling-distribution-version2-
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Direction: Solve the given problems.

1. A population consists of the four numbers 1, 2, 4 and 5. List all the possible samples of size n
= 3 which can be drawn with replacement from the population. Find the following:

a. Population mean

b. Population variance

c. Population standard deviation.

d. Mean of the sampling distribution of sample means

e. Variance of the sampling distribution of sample means

f. Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means

2. A population consists of the four numbers 1, 2, 8, and 9. List all the possible samples of size
n = 2 which can be drawn without replacement from the population. Find the following:

a. Population mean

b. Population variance

c. Population standard deviation

d. Mean of the sampling distribution of sample means

e. Variance of the sampling distribution of sample means

f. Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means

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