German Tanks

In World War 2, it was important for the Allies to be able to estimate the total number of German tanks in operation. Assuming the Germans numbered their tanks from 1 to N and that the Allies have captured a random sample of n tanks, your mission is to create a statistic that best estimates the value of N–and help the Allies win the war!

Population

Enter the population size: N =

Sample

Enter the sample size: n =

Sampling Distributions

Approximate sampling distribution of

Median x 2Mean + 3 SDMaxCustom 1

Number of random samples to add: Animate

Median x 2

Mean: —; Standard deviation: —; Number of samples: 0