Looks at sampling techniques and shows how they are used by a manufacturer to control production quality. The program then introduces the concept of t-distribution used by the Trading Standards Office to check legal norms in production. Finally, computer animation shows how the distribution of the sample mean is related to the distribution of the population
Analysis
Sampling (Statistics)
Statistics
Notes
"FOUM165S/71/X."
Can accompany separately published booklet: Samples and sampling. Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1984
Credits
Producer: Andrew Barker; Graphic design: Michael Guiver
Cast
Gillian Iossif, Daniel Lunn, Eric Gordon, Robert Witney