Texts: Please help me with the last box (c).
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Comparing sample means
Sample
Word length (number of letters)
Sample mean
1
78796.833
2
7749.8646
3
5.9.8.7.46.95
(b) Use the table to calculate the range of the sample means.
Range of sample means: ____
(c) The students are going to use the sample means to estimate the mean word length in the book.
Select all the true statements below.
- A single sample mean will tend to be a worse estimate than the mean of the sample means.
- The mean of the sample means will tend to be a worse estimate than a single sample mean.
- The closer the range of the sample means is to 0, the less confident they can be in their estimate.
- The farther the range of the sample means is from 0, the less confident they can be in their estimate.