sampling distribution

American  

noun

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

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sampling distribution Scientific  

/ săm′plĭng /

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

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All other things constant, the sampling distribution with sample size 50 has a smaller standard deviation that causes the graph to be higher and narrower.

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As this happens, the standard deviation of the sampling distribution changes in another way; the standard deviation decreases as n increases.

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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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We have already inserted this conclusion of the Central Limit Theorem into the formula we use for standardizing from the sampling distribution to the standard normal distribution.

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The theoretical sampling distribution contains all of the sample mean values from all the possible samples that could have been taken from the population.

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