Solution) Suppose the monthly unpaid balance on a Citicorp MasterCard is normally distributed with a mean of $


Question: Suppose the monthly unpaid balance on a Citicorp MasterCard is normally distributed with a mean of $1200 and standard deviation of $240. We want to show that the sample mean \(\bar{X}\) is an unbiased estimate of the population mean μ , and the sample variance s2 is an unbiased estimate of the population variance σ2. Note that you can generate observation from CITICORP accounts by using the formula

=NORMINV(RAND(),1200,240).

Develop a simulation as follows:

- Generate 50 samples of five credit card balances each. Do not freeze the random numbers

- Calculate \(\bar{X}\) and s2 for each sample

- Show that \(\bar{X}\) average to a value near the actual mean of $1200

- Show that s2's average to a value near the true value σ2=2402.

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