Question

For the population of all college students currently taking a statistics course, you want to estimate the proportion who are women. You obtain a simple random sample of statistics students at Broward College in Florida. Is the resulting sample proportion a good estimator of the population proportion of all college statistics students

Answer 1

No

Explanation:

To estimate population proportion from a sample, we must ensure that the sample data is random. Though a simple random sample of college students from a particular college was used as the sample data. However, selection of the college should have been randomized as well, a stratified random sample would have been a better sampling method whereby certain colleges are selected based on region or other criteria and then a random sample of it's statistics students selected. The sample proportion Obtian from a sample of this nature will be more representative of the population proportion of all college statistic student.