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Learning Journal Reflective Comments:

Thursday September 23th – 25th, 2022.

I read the learning objective of week 4, the Supplementary Exercise Unit 4 and started reading
chapter 4, read about Probability and the distribution of a population

Saturday September 26th – 27th, 2022.

I read the learning and reading assignments and decided to start working on my various tasks. I read
and learned about Parameters of the population (mean, variance, standard deviation.)

Wednesday September 28th, 2022.

I participated in the Discussion Forum by sharing my own experience and evaluated the work of
three of my colleagues. I also did my learning journal, self-quiz, and written assignment.

2. Vocabulary and R functions

A. What does the symbol x-bar represent?

- The x-bar represents the mean (Yakir, 2011. p. 36).

B. What does the Greek letter mu (μ) represent as it was used in this week's lessons?

- The Greek letter mu (μ) represents the mean of the entire population and it is

pronounced as “mew” (Yakir, 2011. p. 51).

C. What is the difference between x-bar and mu?

- The difference between x-bar and mu is that x-bar is focused on sample mark only, mu

focuses on the entire population. X-bar (n) represents the number of observations in x-

bar, while the mu (N) represents the number of observations in mu

3. Mean

A. Finding the mean with the method of using the sample space and probabilities that was

thought in our book, I will provide 7 values and this dataset are; 15, 17, 13, 14, 16, 11, 12.

Getting the average of the values

= 1 * 15/7 + 1 * 17/7 + 1 * 13/7 + 1 * 14/7 + 1 * 16/7 + 1 * 11/7 + 1 * 12/7

= 2.14 + 2.43 + 1.86 + 2 + 2.29 + 1.57 + 1.71

= 14
Using the R program manually inputting these values here is the result:

> 1*15/7 + 1*17/7 + 1*13/7 + 1*14/7 + 1*16/7 + 1*11/7 + 1*12/7

[1] 14

B. The frequency of each value in a data collection is multiplied. To determine the mean, the
products are put together. The number 14 denotes the distribution's geographic center. It indicates
that the data set is spread throughout that range. If seven persons were to share the values, each
would receive 14 things.

Reference:

Yakir, B. (2011). Introduction to statistical thinking with R without Calculus. The Hebrew University.
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