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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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Notice that the standard deviation of the sampling distribution is the original standard deviation of the population, divided by the sample size.

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Again the Central Limit Theorem tells us that this distribution is normally distributed just like the case of the sampling distribution for x¯ 's.

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Below the distribution of the population values is the sampling distribution of p 's.

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With the use of computers, experiments can be simulated that show the process by which the sampling distribution changes as the sample size is increased.

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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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