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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This is the theoretical distribution called the sampling distribution of the means.

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We now investigate the sampling distribution for another important parameter we wish to estimate; p from the binomial probability density function.

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If the probability that the true mean is one standard deviation away from the mean, then for the sampling distribution with the smaller sample size, the possible range of values is much greater.

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

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We have already seen that as the sample size increases the sampling distribution becomes closer and closer to the normal distribution.

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