Zoe Q.

asked • 01/22/21

Based on these results, does sample median appear to be a biased or unbiased estimator of population median?

Alejandro was curious if sample median was an unbiased estimator of population median. He placed ping pong balls numbered from 0 to 32 in a drum and mixed them well. Note that the median of the population is 16.

He then took a random sample of 5 balls and calculated the median of the sample. He replaced the balls and repeated this process for a total of 50 trials. His results are summarized in the dotplot below, where each dot represents the sample median from a sample of 5 balls.

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David B. answered • 01/31/21

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