Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
16-1
Learning Objectives
Identify the properties of the normal distribution and normal
curve
Identify the characteristics of the standard normal curve
Understand examples of normally distributed data
Read z-score tables and find areas under the normal curve
Find the z-score, given the area under the normal curve
Compute proportions
Check whether data follow a normal distribution
Understand and apply the Central Limit Theorem
Solve business problems that can be represented by a
normal distribution
Calculate estimates and their standard errors
Calculate confidence intervals for the population mean
Calculate confidence intervals for the population proportion
16-2
16.1 Introduction
When the frequencies of observations for a large
population result in a frequency polygon that follows the
pattern of a smooth bell-shaped curve that population is
said to have a normal distribution.
16-3
Introduction (cont)
The normal curve
If the frequency polygon for a given set of observations that
have a normal distribution is made into a smooth curve, the
resulting curve is referred to as a normal curve.
A specific normal curve is characterised by its mean () and
standard deviation ().
16-4
Introduction (cont)
The main features of a normal distribution are:
It is bell-shaped.
It is symmetric about the mean.
It is asymptotic to the horizontal axis.
Approximately 68% of the distribution lies within 1 standard
deviation of the mean;
about 95% lies within 2 standard deviations of the mean;
about 99.7% lies within 3 standard deviations of the mean.
The location and dispersion will depend on the values of
and (see Figures 16.2 and 16.3).
The total area under any normal curve is 1.
16-5
16-6
16-7
16-8
Standard score z
x
z
16-9
16-10
16-11
16-12
16-13
16-14
16-15
16-16
x z
300 60 0.385
323.1
Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd
PowerPoint slides to accompany Croucher, Introductory Mathematics and Statistics, 5e
16-17
16-18
16-19
x
z
n
Where
thepopulationmean
the population stantard deviation
n the size of the sample
x the mean of the sample
Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd
PowerPoint slides to accompany Croucher, Introductory Mathematics and Statistics, 5e
16-20
16-21
where:
= population standard deviation
n = size of random sample
the value of can be replaced by the sample standard
deviation, s.
Standard error of the mean
s
n
16-22
16-23
x 1.96
, x 1.96
16-24
16-25
1
n
Where
= the population proportion
n = the size of the random sample
the value of can be replaced by the sample standard proportion, p
standard error of the proportion
p 1 p
n
16-26
16-27
p z p 1 p , p z p 1 p
n
n
16-28
Conclusion
16-29