# %% # import libraries import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # %% # create a list of numbers to compute the mean and variance x = [1,2,4,6,5,4,0,-4,5,-2,6,10,-9,1,3,-6] n = len(x) # compute the population mean popmean = np.mean(x) # compute a sample mean sample = np.random.choice(x,size=5,replace=True) sampmean = np.mean(sample) # print them print(popmean) print(sampmean) # %% # compute lots of sample means # number of experiments tor run nExpers = 10000 # run the experiment! sampleMeans = np.zeros(nExpers) for i in range(nExpers): # step 1: draw a sample sample = np.random.choice(x,size=5,replace=True) # step 2: compute its mean sampleMeans[i] = np.mean(sample) # show the results as a histogram plt.hist(sampleMeans,bins=40, density=True) plt.plot([popmean,popmean], [0,.3],'m--') plt.ylabel('Count') plt.xlabel('Sample mean') plt.show() # %%