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48-649: BWU may mean: "BWU" (song) , by Tegan and Sara Baldwin Wallace University , in Berea, Ohio BoyWithUke , an acronym commonly used by the BoyWithUke fandom Bankstown Airport , IATA airport code "BWU" Barbados Workers' Union Big Willy Unleashed , a side game in the Destroy All Humans franchise Blind Workers' Union of Victoria ,

96-720: A different probability distribution with known variance σ i 2 {\displaystyle \sigma _{i}^{2}} , all having the same mean, one possible choice for the weights is given by the reciprocal of variance: The weighted mean in this case is: and the standard error of the weighted mean (with inverse-variance weights) is: Note this reduces to σ x ¯ 2 = σ 0 2 / n {\displaystyle \sigma _{\bar {x}}^{2}=\sigma _{0}^{2}/n} when all σ i = σ 0 {\displaystyle \sigma _{i}=\sigma _{0}} . It

144-624: A positive review, calling it "another solid soundtrack for summer romances and road-trips alike". "Every track is a three-minute formalist construct that captures a mood... every one is catchy," said Robert Christgau in his review for Vice . Love You to Death entered the Billboard 200 at number 16. In its second week, the album fell to number 181. In the United Kingdom, Love You to Death reached number 30. In Canada, Love You to Death reached number three and spent three weeks on

192-607: A role in descriptive statistics and also occurs in a more general form in several other areas of mathematics. If all the weights are equal, then the weighted mean is the same as the arithmetic mean . While weighted means generally behave in a similar fashion to arithmetic means, they do have a few counterintuitive properties, as captured for instance in Simpson's paradox . Given two school classes   —   one with 20 students, one with 30 students   —   and test grades in each class as follows: The mean for

240-554: A sample, is denoted as P ( I i = 1 ∣ Some sample of size  n ) = π i {\displaystyle P(I_{i}=1\mid {\text{Some sample of size }}n)=\pi _{i}} , and the one-draw probability of selection is P ( I i = 1 | one sample draw ) = p i ≈ π i n {\displaystyle P(I_{i}=1|{\text{one sample draw}})=p_{i}\approx {\frac {\pi _{i}}{n}}} (If N

288-407: A tick mark if multiplying by the indicator function. I.e.: y ˇ i ′ = I i y ˇ i = I i y i π i {\displaystyle {\check {y}}'_{i}=I_{i}{\check {y}}_{i}={\frac {I_{i}y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}} In this design based perspective,

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384-573: Is which expands to: Therefore, data elements with a high weight contribute more to the weighted mean than do elements with a low weight. The weights may not be negative in order for the equation to work . Some may be zero, but not all of them (since division by zero is not allowed). The formulas are simplified when the weights are normalized such that they sum up to 1, i.e., ∑ i = 1 n w i ′ = 1 {\textstyle \sum \limits _{i=1}^{n}{w_{i}'}=1} . For such normalized weights,

432-457: Is a special case of the general formula in previous section, The equations above can be combined to obtain: The significance of this choice is that this weighted mean is the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean of the probability distributions under the assumption that they are independent and normally distributed with the same mean. The weighted sample mean, x ¯ {\displaystyle {\bar {x}}} ,

480-524: Is called a Ratio estimator and it is approximately unbiased for R . In this case, the variability of the ratio depends on the variability of the random variables both in the numerator and the denominator - as well as their correlation. Since there is no closed analytical form to compute this variance, various methods are used for approximate estimation. Primarily Taylor series first-order linearization, asymptotics, and bootstrap/jackknife. The Taylor linearization method could lead to under-estimation of

528-561: Is considered constant, and the variability comes from the selection procedure. This in contrast to "model based" approaches in which the randomness is often described in the y values. The survey sampling procedure yields a series of Bernoulli indicator values ( I i {\displaystyle I_{i}} ) that get 1 if some observation i is in the sample and 0 if it was not selected. This can occur with fixed sample size, or varied sample size sampling (e.g.: Poisson sampling ). The probability of some element to be chosen, given

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576-483: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages BWU (song) It was revealed in November 2015 by Stereogum that Tegan and Sara had completed recording of the then untitled album. The band announced the name of the album on their official Facebook on March 10, 2016, with the official album art released the next day on their official Instagram account. At

624-424: Is fixed, and the randomness comes from it being included in the sample or not ( I i {\displaystyle I_{i}} ), we often talk about the multiplication of the two, which is a random variable. To avoid confusion in the following section, let's call this term: y i ′ = y i I i {\displaystyle y'_{i}=y_{i}I_{i}} . With

672-413: Is itself a random variable. Its expected value and standard deviation are related to the expected values and standard deviations of the observations, as follows. For simplicity, we assume normalized weights (weights summing to one). If the observations have expected values E ( x i ) = μ i , {\displaystyle E(x_{i})={\mu _{i}},} then

720-486: Is known we can estimate the population mean using Y ¯ ^ known  N = Y ^ p w r N ≈ ∑ i = 1 n w i y i ′ N {\displaystyle {\hat {\bar {Y}}}_{{\text{known }}N}={\frac {{\hat {Y}}_{pwr}}{N}}\approx {\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y'_{i}}{N}}} . If

768-453: Is pop music that is all heart all the time, and for that, the sisters deserve every accolade that comes their way." Spin ' s Rachel Brodsky claims: "All over their eighth album, the Quins continue to demonstrate what makes them such fine songwriters." Jordan Bassett of NME calls it a "perfectly formed record full of buoyant pop songs." Exclaim! ' s Ryan McNutt gave the album

816-410: Is rather limited due to the strong assumption about the y observations. This has led to the development of alternative, more general, estimators. From a model based perspective, we are interested in estimating the variance of the weighted mean when the different y i {\displaystyle y_{i}} are not i.i.d random variables. An alternative perspective for this problem

864-565: Is that of some arbitrary sampling design of the data in which units are selected with unequal probabilities (with replacement). In Survey methodology , the population mean, of some quantity of interest y , is calculated by taking an estimation of the total of y over all elements in the population ( Y or sometimes T ) and dividing it by the population size – either known ( N {\displaystyle N} ) or estimated ( N ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {N}}} ). In this context, each value of y

912-681: Is the probability of selecting both i and j. And Δ ˇ i j = 1 − π i π j π i j {\displaystyle {\check {\Delta }}_{ij}=1-{\frac {\pi _{i}\pi _{j}}{\pi _{ij}}}} , and for i=j: Δ ˇ i i = 1 − π i π i π i = 1 − π i {\displaystyle {\check {\Delta }}_{ii}=1-{\frac {\pi _{i}\pi _{i}}{\pi _{i}}}=1-\pi _{i}} . If

960-481: Is very large and each p i {\displaystyle p_{i}} is very small). For the following derivation we'll assume that the probability of selecting each element is fully represented by these probabilities. I.e.: selecting some element will not influence the probability of drawing another element (this doesn't apply for things such as cluster sampling design). Since each element ( y i {\displaystyle y_{i}} )

1008-1074: The π {\displaystyle \pi } -estimator. This estimator can be itself estimated using the pwr -estimator (i.e.: p {\displaystyle p} -expanded with replacement estimator, or "probability with replacement" estimator). With the above notation, it is: Y ^ p w r = 1 n ∑ i = 1 n y i ′ p i = ∑ i = 1 n y i ′ n p i ≈ ∑ i = 1 n y i ′ π i = ∑ i = 1 n w i y i ′ {\displaystyle {\hat {Y}}_{pwr}={\frac {1}{n}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {y'_{i}}{p_{i}}}=\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {y'_{i}}{np_{i}}}\approx \sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {y'_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}=\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y'_{i}} . The estimated variance of

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1056-732: The Beats 1 premiere interview, Sara explained the concept behind the album's lead single "Boyfriend": As Quin explained to DJ Matt Wilkinson, the song details a love triangle she found herself in with a woman who not only hadn't dated another girl before, but was still seeing another man. "I think that's pretty relatable. Obviously, being gay, there's sort of a bit of a gender twist in the song, and I get that that sometimes doesn't seem immediately relatable to everybody, whether they're straight or whatever. But this idea, you know, that we've all been in that situation where we really like someone and we want to make it official, and they're not ready, that's what

1104-735: The pwr -estimator is given by: Var ⁡ ( Y ^ p w r ) = n n − 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( w i y i − w y ¯ ) 2 {\displaystyle \operatorname {Var} ({\hat {Y}}_{pwr})={\frac {n}{n-1}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left(w_{i}y_{i}-{\overline {wy}}\right)^{2}} where w y ¯ = ∑ i = 1 n w i y i n {\displaystyle {\overline {wy}}=\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {w_{i}y_{i}}{n}}} . The above formula

1152-443: The sampling design is one that results in a fixed sample size n (such as in pps sampling ), then the variance of this estimator is: The general formula can be developed like this: The population total is denoted as Y = ∑ i = 1 N y i {\displaystyle Y=\sum _{i=1}^{N}y_{i}} and it may be estimated by the (unbiased) Horvitz–Thompson estimator , also called

1200-2535: The above notation, the parameter we care about is the ratio of the sums of y i {\displaystyle y_{i}} s, and 1s. I.e.: R = Y ¯ = ∑ i = 1 N y i π i ∑ i = 1 N 1 π i = ∑ i = 1 N y ˇ i ∑ i = 1 N 1 ˇ i = ∑ i = 1 N w i y i ∑ i = 1 N w i {\displaystyle R={\bar {Y}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{N}{\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}}{\sum _{i=1}^{N}{\frac {1}{\pi _{i}}}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{N}{\check {y}}_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{N}{\check {1}}_{i}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{N}w_{i}y_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{N}w_{i}}}} . We can estimate it using our sample with: R ^ = Y ¯ ^ = ∑ i = 1 N I i y i π i ∑ i = 1 N I i 1 π i = ∑ i = 1 N y ˇ i ′ ∑ i = 1 N 1 ˇ i ′ = ∑ i = 1 N w i y i ′ ∑ i = 1 N w i 1 i ′ = ∑ i = 1 n w i y i ′ ∑ i = 1 n w i 1 i ′ = y ¯ w {\displaystyle {\hat {R}}={\hat {\bar {Y}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{N}I_{i}{\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}}{\sum _{i=1}^{N}I_{i}{\frac {1}{\pi _{i}}}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{N}{\check {y}}'_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{N}{\check {1}}'_{i}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{N}w_{i}y'_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{N}w_{i}1'_{i}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y'_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}1'_{i}}}={\bar {y}}_{w}} . As we moved from using N to using n, we actually know that all

1248-465: The chart. Credits adapted from the iTunes pre-order listing. Credits adapted from AllMusic . Musicians Technical personnel Weighted arithmetic mean The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average ), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others. The notion of weighted mean plays

1296-809: The class means and the number of students in each class are needed. Since only the relative weights are relevant, any weighted mean can be expressed using coefficients that sum to one. Such a linear combination is called a convex combination . Using the previous example, we would get the following weights: Then, apply the weights like this: Formally, the weighted mean of a non-empty finite tuple of data ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n ) {\displaystyle \left(x_{1},x_{2},\dots ,x_{n}\right)} , with corresponding non-negative weights ( w 1 , w 2 , … , w n ) {\displaystyle \left(w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{n}\right)}

1344-522: The data elements are independent and identically distributed random variables with variance σ 2 {\displaystyle \sigma ^{2}} , the standard error of the weighted mean , σ x ¯ {\displaystyle \sigma _{\bar {x}}} , can be shown via uncertainty propagation to be: For the weighted mean of a list of data for which each element x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} potentially comes from

1392-410: The expectation of the weighted sample mean will be that value, E ( x ¯ ) = μ . {\displaystyle E({\bar {x}})=\mu .} When treating the weights as constants, and having a sample of n observations from uncorrelated random variables , all with the same variance and expectation (as is the case for i.i.d random variables), then

1440-610: The following expectancy: E [ y i ′ ] = y i E [ I i ] = y i π i {\displaystyle E[y'_{i}]=y_{i}E[I_{i}]=y_{i}\pi _{i}} ; and variance: V [ y i ′ ] = y i 2 V [ I i ] = y i 2 π i ( 1 − π i ) {\displaystyle V[y'_{i}]=y_{i}^{2}V[I_{i}]=y_{i}^{2}\pi _{i}(1-\pi _{i})} . When each element of

1488-1480: The formula from above. An alternative term, for when the sampling has a random sample size (as in Poisson sampling ), is presented in Sarndal et al. (1992) as: Var ⁡ ( Y ¯ ^ pwr (known  N ) ) = 1 N 2 ∑ i = 1 n ∑ j = 1 n ( Δ ˇ i j y ˇ i y ˇ j ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {Var} ({\hat {\bar {Y}}}_{{\text{pwr (known }}N{\text{)}}})={\frac {1}{N^{2}}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\sum _{j=1}^{n}\left({\check {\Delta }}_{ij}{\check {y}}_{i}{\check {y}}_{j}\right)} With y ˇ i = y i π i {\displaystyle {\check {y}}_{i}={\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}} . Also, C ( I i , I j ) = π i j − π i π j = Δ i j {\displaystyle C(I_{i},I_{j})=\pi _{ij}-\pi _{i}\pi _{j}=\Delta _{ij}} where π i j {\displaystyle \pi _{ij}}

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1536-467: The grades up and divide by the total number of students): x ¯ = 4300 50 = 86. {\displaystyle {\bar {x}}={\frac {4300}{50}}=86.} Or, this can be accomplished by weighting the class means by the number of students in each class. The larger class is given more "weight": Thus, the weighted mean makes it possible to find the mean average student grade without knowing each student's score. Only

1584-441: The indicator variables get 1, so we could simply write: y ¯ w = ∑ i = 1 n w i y i ∑ i = 1 n w i {\displaystyle {\bar {y}}_{w}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}}}} . This will be the estimand for specific values of y and w, but

1632-407: The morning class is 80 and the mean of the afternoon class is 90. The unweighted mean of the two means is 85. However, this does not account for the difference in number of students in each class (20 versus 30); hence the value of 85 does not reflect the average student grade (independent of class). The average student grade can be obtained by averaging all the grades, without regard to classes (add all

1680-408: The population mean as a ratio of an estimated population total ( Y ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {Y}}} ) with a known population size ( N {\displaystyle N} ), and the variance was estimated in that context. Another common case is that the population size itself ( N {\displaystyle N} ) is unknown and is estimated using

1728-826: The sample (i.e.: N ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {N}}} ). The estimation of N {\displaystyle N} can be described as the sum of weights. So when w i = 1 π i {\displaystyle w_{i}={\frac {1}{\pi _{i}}}} we get N ^ = ∑ i = 1 n w i I i = ∑ i = 1 n I i π i = ∑ i = 1 n 1 ˇ i ′ {\displaystyle {\hat {N}}=\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}I_{i}=\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {I_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}=\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\check {1}}'_{i}} . With

1776-641: The sample is inflated by the inverse of its selection probability, it is termed the π {\displaystyle \pi } -expanded y values, i.e.: y ˇ i = y i π i {\displaystyle {\check {y}}_{i}={\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}} . A related quantity is p {\displaystyle p} -expanded y values: y i p i = n y ˇ i {\displaystyle {\frac {y_{i}}{p_{i}}}=n{\check {y}}_{i}} . As above, we can add

1824-2159: The selection probability are uncorrelated (i.e.: ∀ i ≠ j : C ( I i , I j ) = 0 {\displaystyle \forall i\neq j:C(I_{i},I_{j})=0} ), and when assuming the probability of each element is very small, then: We assume that ( 1 − π i ) ≈ 1 {\displaystyle (1-\pi _{i})\approx 1} and that Var ⁡ ( Y ^ pwr (known  N ) ) = 1 N 2 ∑ i = 1 n ∑ j = 1 n ( Δ ˇ i j y ˇ i y ˇ j ) = 1 N 2 ∑ i = 1 n ( Δ ˇ i i y ˇ i y ˇ i ) = 1 N 2 ∑ i = 1 n ( ( 1 − π i ) y i π i y i π i ) = 1 N 2 ∑ i = 1 n ( w i y i ) 2 {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\operatorname {Var} ({\hat {Y}}_{{\text{pwr (known }}N{\text{)}}})&={\frac {1}{N^{2}}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\sum _{j=1}^{n}\left({\check {\Delta }}_{ij}{\check {y}}_{i}{\check {y}}_{j}\right)\\&={\frac {1}{N^{2}}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left({\check {\Delta }}_{ii}{\check {y}}_{i}{\check {y}}_{i}\right)\\&={\frac {1}{N^{2}}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left((1-\pi _{i}){\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}{\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}\right)\\&={\frac {1}{N^{2}}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left(w_{i}y_{i}\right)^{2}\end{aligned}}} The previous section dealt with estimating

1872-429: The song is about." The album became available for pre-order on iTunes , Amazon Music , Google Play , and in retail stores and other music distribution platforms on April 8, 2016, and was released on June 3, 2016. Since the album has become available for pre-order, one official single has been released from the album, titled " Boyfriend ". The single first became available to listen to via Beats 1 on April 7, 2016, and

1920-449: The statistical properties comes when including the indicator variable y ¯ w = ∑ i = 1 n w i y i ′ ∑ i = 1 n w i 1 i ′ {\displaystyle {\bar {y}}_{w}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y'_{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}1'_{i}}}} . This

1968-722: The variance for small sample sizes in general, but that depends on the complexity of the statistic. For the weighted mean, the approximate variance is supposed to be relatively accurate even for medium sample sizes. For when the sampling has a random sample size (as in Poisson sampling ), it is as follows: If π i ≈ p i n {\displaystyle \pi _{i}\approx p_{i}n} , then either using w i = 1 π i {\displaystyle w_{i}={\frac {1}{\pi _{i}}}} or w i = 1 p i {\displaystyle w_{i}={\frac {1}{p_{i}}}} would give

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2016-959: The variance of the weighted mean can be estimated as the multiplication of the unweighted variance by Kish's design effect (see proof ): With σ ^ y 2 = ∑ i = 1 n ( y i − y ¯ ) 2 n − 1 {\displaystyle {\hat {\sigma }}_{y}^{2}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}(y_{i}-{\bar {y}})^{2}}{n-1}}} , w ¯ = ∑ i = 1 n w i n {\displaystyle {\bar {w}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}}{n}}} , and w 2 ¯ = ∑ i = 1 n w i 2 n {\displaystyle {\overline {w^{2}}}={\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}^{2}}{n}}} However, this estimation

2064-404: The weighted mean is equivalently: One can always normalize the weights by making the following transformation on the original weights: The ordinary mean 1 n ∑ i = 1 n x i {\textstyle {\frac {1}{n}}\sum \limits _{i=1}^{n}{x_{i}}} is a special case of the weighted mean where all data have equal weights. If

2112-427: The weighted sample mean has expectation E ( x ¯ ) = ∑ i = 1 n w i ′ μ i . {\displaystyle E({\bar {x}})=\sum _{i=1}^{n}{w_{i}'\mu _{i}}.} In particular, if the means are equal, μ i = μ {\displaystyle \mu _{i}=\mu } , then

2160-416: The weights, used in the numerator of the weighted mean, are obtained from taking the inverse of the selection probability (i.e.: the inflation factor). I.e.: w i = 1 π i ≈ 1 n × p i {\displaystyle w_{i}={\frac {1}{\pi _{i}}}\approx {\frac {1}{n\times p_{i}}}} . If the population size N

2208-410: Was available to download the next day. The twins announced via their Instagram account that "Stop Desire" would be released as the second single from the album. The track is also featured on the soundtrack and in the trailer of The Sims 4: City Living expansion pack. "U-turn" was released as a promotional single along with "Boyfriend" on April 8, 2016 for listeners who pre-ordered the album. "100x"

2256-487: Was released as the second promotional single on May 6, 2016, and "Stop Desire" was released as the third and final promotional single on May 20, 2016. Love You to Death received generally positive reviews from music critics . At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 78 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Tim Sendra of AllMusic writes: "This

2304-2423: Was taken from Sarndal et al. (1992) (also presented in Cochran 1977), but was written differently. The left side is how the variance was written and the right side is how we've developed the weighted version: Var ⁡ ( Y ^ pwr ) = 1 n 1 n − 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( y i p i − Y ^ p w r ) 2 = 1 n 1 n − 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( n n y i p i − n n ∑ i = 1 n w i y i ) 2 = 1 n 1 n − 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( n y i π i − n ∑ i = 1 n w i y i n ) 2 = n 2 n 1 n − 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( w i y i − w y ¯ ) 2 = n n − 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( w i y i − w y ¯ ) 2 {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\operatorname {Var} ({\hat {Y}}_{\text{pwr}})&={\frac {1}{n}}{\frac {1}{n-1}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left({\frac {y_{i}}{p_{i}}}-{\hat {Y}}_{pwr}\right)^{2}\\&={\frac {1}{n}}{\frac {1}{n-1}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left({\frac {n}{n}}{\frac {y_{i}}{p_{i}}}-{\frac {n}{n}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y_{i}\right)^{2}={\frac {1}{n}}{\frac {1}{n-1}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left(n{\frac {y_{i}}{\pi _{i}}}-n{\frac {\sum _{i=1}^{n}w_{i}y_{i}}{n}}\right)^{2}\\&={\frac {n^{2}}{n}}{\frac {1}{n-1}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left(w_{i}y_{i}-{\overline {wy}}\right)^{2}\\&={\frac {n}{n-1}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}\left(w_{i}y_{i}-{\overline {wy}}\right)^{2}\end{aligned}}} And we got to

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