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A probability distribution for all possible values of the statistic computed from a sample of size n |
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Sampling distribution of the sample mean |
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xbar is the probability distribution of all possible values of the random variable xbar computed from a sample size n from a population with mean mew and sd sigma |
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Mean of sampling distribution xbar |
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Standard deviation of sampling distribution xbar |
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sigmaxbar = sigma/(n)^0.5 |
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The standard deviation of the sample distribution xbar is called |
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Standard error of the mean |
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If a random variable X is normally distributed, the distribution of the sample mean xbar is |
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The sampling distribution of xbar becomes approximately normal as the sample size n increases |
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