23ADO201 DATA SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS

Case Study on Sampling Distribution

Case Study Scenario

Problem Statement

A university wants to analyze the average marks of students in a Statistics course.
The total number of students in the university is 5000.

Since collecting marks from every student is difficult, the researcher selects random samples and studies their averages.

Parameter Value
Population Size (N) 5000 students
Population Mean (μ) 70 marks
Population Standard Deviation (σ) 12 marks

Sampling Process

The researcher randomly selects samples of:

  • Sample Size = 36 students
  • Number of Samples = 100

For each sample, the mean marks are calculated.

These sample means form the sampling distribution of the sample mean.