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'Stat 332 Sampling and Experimental Design: (Due: 12:29pm before class, Friday, Oct 19, 2012) Assignment 2 1. In the future US presidential option this November, Florida is a nominate swing state that is very important in determining the outcome. Currently the representative scene Barack Obama and the republican candidate Mitt Romney are virtually fix in recent polls. For this question, you can use 9 million as our population sizing; this is almost the sum of money number votes in the 2008 presidential election in Florida. a) The latest poll asked 890 likely voters and order that the proportion of Florida residents likely to vote for the Democratic candidate is 47%, rip offstruct a 95% con? dence interval for this estimate under the SRSWOR. By the way, the jut for Republican is 46%, and the rest are undecided. (b) If a news organization losss to conduct a SRSWOR written report to ? nd out the percentage of Florida residents supporting the Democratic candidate, what is t he sample size needed to achieve a result which is accurate within 0. percentage point, 19 out 20 times? 2. We have long hundred students in Stat332. (a) What is the tote up number of possible samples of size 10 under SRSWOR? (b) Suppose that among the 120 students of Stat332, 60 are male students and 60 are egg-producing(prenominal) students. We unavoidableness to perform a STSRS (strati? ed frank random sampling) with male students and female students being deuce strata, and we want to postdate 5 students from distributively stratum, what is the total number of possible samples? What is the ratio of the two numbers game (STSRS/SRSWOR)? 3. Lohr (2010) Ch3, Q10 part a.Hard trounce lolly may be sampled by using a dredge. Clams do not tend to be uniformly distributed in a body of water, however, as some areas admit better habitat than others. Thus, taking a childlike random sample is likely to result in a large estimated discrepancy for the number of clams in an area. Rus sell (1972) used strati? ed random sampling to estimate the total number of bushels of hard shell clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. The area of interest was dissever into four strata based on preliminary surveys that identi? d areas in which clams were abundant. Then nh dredge tows were make in stratum h, for h = 1, 2, 3, 4. The acreage for each stratum was known, and Russell calculated that the area ? shed during a cadence dredge tow was 0. 039 acres, so that we may use Nh = 25. 6 ? Areah . Here are the results from the survey taken before the commercial season. Estimate the total number of bushels of clams in the area, and give the standard error of your estimate. Stratum 1 2 3 4 Area Number of (Acres) Tows Made 222. 81 4 49. 61 6 50. 25 3 197. 1 5 Average Number of hear Variance Bushels per Tow for Stratum 0. 44 0. 068 1. 17 0. 042 3. 92 2. 146 1. 80 0. 794 4. Assume the sample variance in Q3 is a good estimate for the strata variance, and we wan t a strati? ed sample size of n = 21. (a) Calculate the stratum sample sizes under proportionate allocation. (b) Calculate the stratum sample sizes under optimum (Neyman) allocation. (c) What are the values (approximately) of V (? st ) with sample size allocations of (a) and y (b), respectively? Compare these two variances and comment. . Foresters want to estimate the average age of trees in a stand. Determining age is cumbersome, because one needs to list the tree rings on a mall taken from the tree. In general, though, the older the tree, the larger the diam, and diameter is easy to measure. The foresters measure the diameter of all 1132 trees and ? nd that the population mean equals 10. 3. They then randomly take away 20 trees for age measurement. The data can be downloaded as hw2q5. txt from course website on Waterloo Learn and fill into R using d\r\n'