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Silas was curious if sample minimum was an unbiased estimator of population minimum. He started with a large
normally distributed population of test scores whose minimum was 51 points.
He then took a random sample of 6 tests and calculated the minimum of the sample. He replaced those tests
and repeated this process for a total of 40 trials. His results are summarized in the dotplot below, where each
dot represents the minimum score from a sample of 6 tests.
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TATUS
50
70
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55
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65
Sample minimum
