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sampling distribution

American  

noun

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

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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If samples of 50 items are taken, what is the standard deviation of the mean of the sampling distribution of sample proportions?

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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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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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Because the sampling distribution is normally distributed, we can develop a standardizing formula and calculate probabilities from the standard normal distribution in the bottom panel, the Z distribution.

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In the center of Figure 9.2 is a normally distributed sampling distribution marked H0.

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