Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 8 - Section 8.1 - Assess Your Understanding - Explaining the Concepts - Page 413: 34

Answer

The sampling distribution of a statistic is a probability distribution for all possible values of the statistic, computed from a sample of size n with or without replacement.

Work Step by Step

In order to get a sampling distribution of the sample mean, one can follow the following steps: Step-1: Obtain the random sample. Step-2: Calculate the average of sample. Step-3: Compare the sample mean with the population mean and repeat Steps 1 and 2 until all different simple indiscriminate samples of size n have been found. In a simple indiscriminate sample of size n drawn from a population with average \[\mu \]and standard deviation \[\sigma \] The sampling distribution of \[\bar{x}\] has average \[{{\mu }_{{\bar{x}}}}=\mu \]and standard deviation \[{{\sigma }_{{\bar{x}}}}=\frac{\sigma }{\sqrt{n}}\].
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