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sampling distribution

American

noun

the distribution of a statistic based on all possible random samples that can be drawn from a given population.

sampling distribution Scientific

/ săm′plĭng /

The distribution of a statistic, such as occurs when a number of sample means are calculated for a given population.

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Here are three examples of very different population distributions and the evolution of the sampling distribution to a normal distribution as the sample size increases.

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What is the variance of the mean of the sampling distribution of sample proportions for the number of unsatisfied customers?

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Figure 7.3 is for a normal distribution of individual observations and we would expect the sampling distribution to converge on the normal quickly.

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The larger n gets, the smaller the standard deviation of the sampling distribution gets.

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Each sample mean is then treated like a single observation of this new distribution, the sampling distribution.

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