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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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We recognized that a sample mean came from a distribution of sample means, and sample proportions came from the sampling distribution of sample proportions.

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

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Each sample mean is then treated like a single observation of this new distribution, the sampling distribution.

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The Central Limit Theorem provides more than the proof that the sampling distribution of means is normally distributed.

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