Week11 practice 2

Sample

Consider a certain distribution. The mean $\mu$ of the distribution is the expected value of a random variable $X$ sample from the distribution. I.e.,

$\mu =E[X]$.

Also recall that the variance of the distribution is

$\sigma ^{2}=Var(X)=E[(X-\mu )^{2}]=E[X^{2}]=E[X]^{2}.$.

And finally, the standard deviation is $\sigma ={\sqrt {Var(X)}}$.

Suppose that you take $n$ samples $X_{1},X_{2},\ldots ,X_{n}$ independently from this distribution. (Note that $X_{1},X_{2},\ldots ,X_{n}$ are random variables.

Sample means

The statistic

${\bar {X}}={\frac {X_{1}+X_{2}+\cdots +X_{n}}{n}}={\frac {1}{n}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}X_{i}$

is called a sample mean.

We can compute:

<math>E[\bar{X}]= E\left[\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n X_i\right] = \frac{1}{n}