About z-statistics and t-statistics (CFA Video)

About z-statistics and t-statistics (CFA Video)

 

 

Q: How to estimate the mean of a normally distributed population? (1,3,4,1,8,9)

A: We can take n samples from the population. And we claim the mean of the sample is the best estimation of the mean of the population.

For n=2:

(1,3), (3,1), (8,9) …

Mean: (2), (2), (8.5) …

The mean of the samples will be normally distributed also!

 

And the variance of the mean of the sample represents how confident you are with the sample mean.

 

Z-statistics

= (x0-m0)/s_samplemean (1)

= (x0-m0)/ (s_population/sqrt(n)) (2)

 

What if s_population is unknown? The mean will following t-distribution and just use equation (1) with t statistics

 

4 Comments

EditorDecember 5th, 2009 at 7:06 am

s_samplemean is standard error of sample mean. When variance of the population is unknown, use s_samplemean = s_sample/sqrt(n) instead of s_population/sqrt(n).

Sorry I didn’t further substitue s_samplemean = s_sample/sqrt(n) when mentioning t-statistics (equation 1).

BharatiDecember 11th, 2009 at 4:48 am

Hi Editor:

Do you have videos for output and cost?

I am your paid customer.Please let me know.I was looking for videos for MC,MB ,AC etc.

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Bharati

EditorDecember 11th, 2009 at 5:21 am

Hi Bharati,

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EditorDecember 13th, 2009 at 4:00 am

Hi Bharati, We start doing output and cost now, here is the 1st one

http://minute-class.com/finance/marginal-total-and-average-products-cfa-video/

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