Preference regarding the antitax initiative

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1. Polly Pollster wants to estimate the proportion of voters in the state of Washington that are in favor of an antitax initiative. She will be using a random sam ple (with replacement) of 1,000 voters, and she will record their preference regarding the antitax initiative. She needs some statistical advice from you.

a. Define a statistical model for the problem of esti mating the proportion of voters in favor of the initiative.

2. Two economics professors are arguing about the ap propriate estimator to use in estimating the mean of the population distribution of incoming freshmen I.Q. The estimators will be based on a random sample from the population distribution. One professor suggests that they simply calculate the sample mean I.Q., X n, and use it as an estimate of the mean of the population distribu tion. The other prefers to use an estimator of the form t(X) = L7=1 X;/(n + k ), where n is the random sample size and k is some positive integer, and she argues that her estimator has less variance than the sample mean and that for an appropriate choice of k, her estimator would be superior on the basis of MSE.

a. We know that X is unbiased, asymptotically unbi ased, BLUE, and consistent for estimating the mean of the population distribution. Which of these prop erties apply to the alternative estimator?

b. Define asymptotic distributions for both estima tors. On the basis of their asymptotic distributions, do you favor one estimator over the other?

c. Define the MSEs of the estimators. Is there any validity to the statement that "for an appropriate choice of k" t(X) will be superior to X in terms of MSE? Explain.

d. Can you foresee any practical problems in using t( X) to generate estimates of the population mean?

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