{"id":20276,"date":"2017-02-27T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20276"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:11:55","slug":"statistics-estimating-population-size-using-order-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/statistics-estimating-population-size-using-order-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics:  estimating population size using order statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor demonstrates a way to estimate population size from three serial numbers.<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Imagine you walk into a room after a convention.  The participants had been given, not name tags, but number tags. You find three tags:  21, 225, and 301.  Estimate how many people attended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<p>The estimation of N, the population size, is given by<\/p>\n<p>N = ((n+1)*x<sub>m<\/sub>\/n) &#8211; 1, where<\/p>\n<p>n = sample size (3, in this case)<\/p>\n<p>x<sub>m<\/sub> = maximum serial number retrieved (301, in this case)<\/p>\n<p>Our result is<\/p>\n<p>N = ((3+1)*301\/3) &#8211; 1 = 400.33 or 400 people.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijsr.net\/archive\/v5i5\/NOV163909.pdf\">www.ijsr.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor demonstrates a way to estimate population size from three serial numbers. Imagine you walk into a room after a convention. The participants had been given, not name tags, but number tags. You find three tags: 21, 225, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/statistics-estimating-population-size-using-order-statistics\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statistics:  estimating population size using order statistics<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2154],"class_list":["post-20276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","tag-order-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20276"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20294,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions\/20294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}