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

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

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