COMPUTING THE

POINT ESTIMATE
OF A POPULATION
MEAN
PREPARED BY: JENNYLYN R. KHE
1… 2… 3… GO!
MUSIC
What do you call the set of
people, objects, events, or
ideas you want to investigate?

1 SAMPLE
2 POPULATION
3 STATISTICSMUSIC
A sample refers to a
____________ of a
population.
1 SUBSET
2 LIST
3
DESCRIPTION MUSIC
• What is the
mean of 13, 27,
29, 17, and 14?
1 29
2 25
3 20 MUSIC
• The symbol μ
(myu) denotes the
_______.
1 SAMPLE
MEAN
2 POPULATION MEAN
3 SUBSET MEAN
MUSIC
What do you call a numerical
quantity that characterizes a
given population or some
aspect on it?
1 PARAMETER
2 VARIABLE
3 DECIMAL MUSIC
GROUP ACTIVITY!
1 and 2 – “OBSERVERS”
3 – “TIMER”
4 – “YELLER”
5 – “WRITER”
6 – “PRESENTER”
7 – “LEADER”
8 – “POSER”
• What method/ instrument (if any)
did you use to arrive with the
answer?
• Were you able to answer the
problem easily because of the tool
that you used?
• Were you able to get the correct
answer?
• Based on the observation of the
mean, would you patronize the
restaurant?
AVERAGE:
12.8 MINUTES
OR
12 MINUTES AND
48 SECONDS
An estimate is a value or a range of
values that approximate a
parameter.
A point estimate is a single specific
numerical value of a population
parameter.
An interval estimate is a range of
values that may contain the
parameter of a population.
THE ROUNDING RULE FOR A
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR A MEAN
When you are computing a confidence
interval for a population mean by using raw
data, round off to one more decimal place
than the number of decimal places in the
original data.

From Elementary Statistics: A Step By Step Approach 9th edition

by Bluman, McGraw-Hill 2014. (Retrieved from
https://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/pquigley/math10/roundin
g.pdf)
EVALUATION

I. Identify the word/words being described in each

item.

II. Solve for the point estimate of the percentage of

20 children who watch TV before bedtime.
PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN WHO WATCH TV
BEFORE BEDTIME
78 75 86 82
80 92 82 85
90 88 90 78
75 85 77 88
83 86 83 84