Author Question: What does the study suggest about the bias of the estimators in this situation? What will be an ... (Read 50 times)

altibaby · **on:** Jun 24, 2018

What does the study suggest about the bias of the estimators in this situation?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

To apply the Wilcoxon rank sum test to determine whether the location of population 1 is different from the location of population 2, the:

A) samples must not be drawn randomly.
B) samples must be drawn from matched pairs of observations.
C) samples must be independent.
D) sample size must be larger than 30.

GCabra · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 24, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The two estimatorsthe mean and the medianappear to be unbiased. The averages are all very close to 120. This result should hold because the simulation uses a symmetric (normal) population.

Answer to Question 2

C