An ecologist is studying the impact of local polluted waters on the growth of alligators. The length of adult male alligators typically follows a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 2...


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An ecologist is studying the impact of local polluted waters on the growth of alligators. The length of adult<br>male alligators typically follows a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 2 feet. The ecologist wants<br>to estimate the mean length of this population of alligators. Suppose she samples n alligators at random and<br>uses the sample mean, X to as an estimator for u.<br>a. What is the bias and variance of the estimator? (Note, these may be a function of n.)<br>b. If n = 4, what is the probability that the estimator is within one foot of the true mean? (I.e. find<br>P(|X – µ| < 1).<br>c. What sample size, n, is required for the estimator to be within one foot of the true mean with 95%<br>probability? (I.e. find the value of n that satisfies P(|X – µ| < 1) = 0.95.)<br>d. Suppose the ecologist ends up sampling n = 9 alligators and calculates a sample mean of ī = 10.4 feet.<br>Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean.<br>e. Give an interpretation for the interval obtained in (d).<br>

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