Statistics & DataSuperchallengeSampling Distributions
Sampling Distributions · Superchallenge problem
A town is rural and urban. Rural incomes have mean and SD ; urban incomes have mean and SD (thousands of dollars). A simple random sample of residents is compared with a stratified sample of rural and urban residents, whose estimate is . Treating the town as very large, by what factor is the variance of the simple random sample's mean larger than the variance of the stratified estimate? Express your answer as a common fraction.