Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 0-49580-891-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-49580-891-6

Chapter 8 - Samples, Sampling Distributions, and Confidence Intervals - Problems - Page 159: 8.13

Answer

When the sample size gets larger, the standard error gets smaller.

Work Step by Step

In particular, if the sample size is multiplied by 4, the standard error is cut in half.
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