{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "0237d0fb", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Sampling variability\n", "We create population (known distribution), then repeatedly take random samples and computes the sample mean. Then, we compare how variability changes for different sample sizes (n). " ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "id": "aa141540", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "(np.float64(3.2549582990800525), np.float64(2.13814149865377))" ] }, "execution_count": 3, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "import numpy as np\n", "import pandas as pd\n", "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n", "rng = np.random.default_rng(7)\n", "population = rng.lognormal(mean=1.0, sigma=0.6, size=200_000)\n", "popMu = population.mean()\n", "popSD = population.std(ddof=0)\n", "popMu, popSD" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": ".venv (3.14.2)", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.14.2" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5 }