CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 · 2017 · Paper 2 · Question 5(c)
A random variable X follows a normal distribution with mean, μ, and an unknown variance, σ². A random sample of 150 observations of X gave ∑x = 1600 and ∑x² = 18 040. Calculate unbiased estimates for the mean and standard deviation of X.
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