(a) Fibonacci posed the following problem: Suppose that rabbits live forever and that every month each pair produces a new pair which becomes productive at age 2 months. If we start with one newborn pair, how many pairs of rabbits will we have in the nth month? Show that the answer is fn, where h fn j is the Fibonacci sequence defined in Example 3(c). (b) Let an fn11yfn and show that an21 1 1 1yan22 . Assuming that han j is convergent, find its limit.
Statistical Inference: provides methods for drawing conclusions about a population from the sample data. There are two ways to do this: Confidence intervals: used to estimate the value of a population parameter using sample statistics Test of Significance: used for assessing evidence for a claim about the population To set up Have to have an SRS from the population, no bias The variable has to have an exactly normal distribution in the population We don’t know population mean , but we know the population standard deviation Confidence Interval What statistic can be used to estimate the population parameter o We can use x-bar To do a confidence interval, it is similar to the 68-95-99.7 rule. So you can say with 95% confidence, the mean number or something will fall between two standard deviations of the mean. o The sampling distribution tells us how close to the mean that the sample mean is o A statistical Estimation: tells us how close to the sample mean x bar the unknown mean is likely to be o Margin of Error: shows how accurate we believe out guess is on the variability of our estimate The confidence interval should be in the format: estimate +- margin of error Formula: margin of error = z*(standard deviation/sqrt(n)) o Confidence level An interval calculated from the sample data: x bar +_ the
