CAIE S2 2006 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2006
SessionNovember
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeSampling distribution theory

2
  1. Write down the mean and variance of the distribution of the means of random samples of size \(n\) taken from a very large population having mean \(\mu\) and variance \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\).
  2. What, if anything, can you say about the distribution of sample means
    (a) if \(n\) is large,
    (b) if \(n\) is small?