Investigation 17: German Tank Problem (due Tuesday, November 30)

You may work with one other person on this assignment, handing in one report with both names.  Word-processed reports are preferred to hand-written ones.  Please copy/paste Minitab output into a Word file as appropriate.

Write a report of your analysis of the "German tank problem" activity (day 24). Address a report to your (fictional) commanding officer with your recommended estimator based on your results. Be very clear about which estimators you examined (both the formula and how you calculated it in Minitab) and why you initially thought they might be good candidates.  Based on your analyses, pick one estimator to recommend to your commander. Carefully explain to him or her why you think that the estimator you chose is the best estimator to use. Make sure you include graphical and numerical evidence and that you have compared your estimators for two different values of n and two different values of N.  Discuss whether or not your estimator is biased, and if so in which direction, and how the variability of your estimators compare.