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Course: AP®︎/College Statistics > Unit 9

Lesson 3: Biased and unbiased point estimates
Math
AP®︎/College Statistics
Sampling distributions
Biased and unbiased point estimates
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Biased and unbiased estimators

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Problem

The dotplots below show an approximation to the sampling distribution for three different estimators of the same population parameter.
If the actual value of the population parameter is 4, which dotplot displays the estimator with high bias and low variability?
Choose 1 answer: