Sampling

Based on Chapter 7 of ModernDive. Code for Quiz 11.

  1. Load the R packages we will use.
  1. Quiz questions

Question: 7.2.4 in Modern Dive with different sample sizes and repetitions

Modify the code for comparing different sample sizes from the virtual bowl

Segment 1: sample size = 30

    1. Take 1200 samples of sixe 30 instead of 1000 replicates of size 25 from the bowl dataset. Assign the output to virtual_samples_30.
virtual_samples_30  <- bowl  %>% 
rep_sample_n(size = 30, reps = 1200)
    1. Compute resulting 1200 replicates of proportion red.
virtual_prop_red_30 <- virtual_samples_30 %>% 
  group_by(replicate) %>% 
  summarize(red = sum(color == "red")) %>% 
  mutate(prop_red = red / 30)
    1. Plot distribution of virtual_prop_red_30 via a histogram, use labs to:
ggplot(virtual_prop_red_30, aes(x = prop_red)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.05, boundary = 0.4, color = "white") +
  labs(x = "Proportion of 30 balls that were red", title = "30") 

Segment 2: sample size = 55

    1. Take 1200 samples of size 55 instead of 1000 replicates of size 50. Assign the output to virtual_samples_55.
virtual_samples_55  <- bowl  %>% 
rep_sample_n(size = 55, reps = 1200)
    1. Compute resulting 1200 replicates of proportion red.
virtual_prop_red_55 <- virtual_samples_55 %>% 
  group_by(replicate) %>% 
  summarize(red = sum(color == "red")) %>% 
  mutate(prop_red = red / 55)
    1. Plot the distribution of virtual_prop_red_55 via a histogram, use labs to:
ggplot(virtual_prop_red_55, aes(x = prop_red)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.05, boundary = 0.4, color = "white") +
  labs(x = "Proportion of 55 balls that were red", title = "55") 

Segment 3: sample size = 120”

    1. Take 1200 samples of size 120 instead of 1000 replicates of size 50. Assign the output to virtual_samples_120.
virtual_samples_120  <- bowl  %>% 
rep_sample_n(size = 120, reps = 1200)
    1. Compute resulting 1200 replicates of proportion red.
virtual_prop_red_120 <- virtual_samples_120 %>% 
  group_by(replicate) %>% 
  summarize(red = sum(color == "red")) %>% 
  mutate(prop_red = red / 120)
    1. Plot the dsitribution of virtual_prop_red_120 via a histogram, use labs to:
ggplot(virtual_prop_red_120, aes(x = prop_red)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.05, boundary = 0.4, color = "white") +
  labs(x = "Proportion of 114 balls that were red", title = "120")

ggsave(filename = "preview.png", 
       path = here::here("_posts", "2022-04-19-sampling"))

Calculate the standard deviations for your three sets of 1200 values of prop_red using the standard deviation.

n = 30

virtual_prop_red_30 %>% 
  summarize(sd = sd(prop_red))
# A tibble: 1 × 1
      sd
   <dbl>
1 0.0856

n = 55

virtual_prop_red_55 %>% 
  summarize(sd = sd(prop_red))
# A tibble: 1 × 1
      sd
   <dbl>
1 0.0668

n = 120

virtual_prop_red_120 %>% 
  summarize(sd = sd(prop_red))
# A tibble: 1 × 1
      sd
   <dbl>
1 0.0421

The distribution with sample size n = 120, has the smallest standard deviation (spread) around the estimated proportion of red balls.