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What is a sampling distribution?
The sampling distribution for a statistic is the distribution of the statistic across all possible samples of that specific size which can be drawn from the population.
What is the purpose of a sampling distribution?
A statistic based on a sample is an estimate of some population characteristic. However, samples will differ and so the statistic - which is based on the sample - will take different values. The sampling distribution gives an indication of ho accurate the sample statistic is to its population counterpart.
Why is average called the measure of central tendency?
Because, whatever the underlying distribution, as more and more samples are taken from ANY population, the average of those samples will have a standard normal distribution whose mean will be their average. The normal (or Gaussian) distribution is symmetric and so its mean lies at the centre of the probability distribution.
What is the difference between a chi-square and t-distribution?
Chi-square is a distribution used to analyze the standard deviation of two samples. A t-distribution on the other hand, is used to compare the means of two samples.
How can you compare means of two samples when the samples are chi square distributed?
According to the Central Limit Theorem if the sample size is large enough then the means will tend towards a normal distribution regardless of the distribution of the actual sample.
What is a sampling distribution?
The sampling distribution for a statistic is the distribution of the statistic across all possible samples of that specific size which can be drawn from the population.
What is sample distribution?
Theoretically, it is the distribution of a statistic based on all possible samples of a given size. In practice, it may be the distribution under repeated samples.
What is the meaning of Sampling distribution of the test statistic?
Given any sample size there are many samples of that size that can be drawn from the population. In the population is N and the sample size in n, then there are NCn, but remember that the population can be infinite. A test statistic is a value that is calculated from only the observations in a sample (no unknown parameters are estimated). The value of the test statistic will change from sample to sample. The sampling distribution of a test statistic is the probability distribution function for all the values that the test statistic can take across all possible samples.
What do you mean by a statistic and its sampling distribution?
A statistic is a summary measure of some characteristic of a population. If you were to take repeated samples from the population you would not get the same statistic each time - it would vary. And the set of values you would get is its sampling distribution.
What is the purpose of a sampling distribution?
A statistic based on a sample is an estimate of some population characteristic. However, samples will differ and so the statistic - which is based on the sample - will take different values. The sampling distribution gives an indication of ho accurate the sample statistic is to its population counterpart.
What is the difference between population and sample distribution?
Sampling distribution is the probability distribution of a given sample statistic. For example, the sample mean. We could take many samples of size k and look at the mean of each of those. The means would form a distribution and that distribution has a mean, a variance and standard deviation. Now the population only has one mean, so we can't do this. Population distribution can refer to how some quality of the population is distributed among the population.
If repeating an experiment many times with different samples what values for the sample means would be possible?
The answer depends on the population and is described by the sampling distribution of the mean.
What distribution is a sampling distribution referring to?
A sampling distribution refers to the distribution from which data relating to a population follows. Information about the sampling distribution plus other information about the population can be inferred by appropriate analysis of samples taken from a distribution.
What is standard deviation of the mean?
If repeated samples are taken from a population, then they will not have the same mean each time. The mean itself will have some distribution. This will have the same mean as the population mean and the standard deviation of this statistic is the standard deviation of the mean.
In a study using 9 samples and in which the population variance is unknown the distribution that should be used to calculate confidence intervals is?
In a study using 9 samples, and in which the population variance is unknown, the distribution that should be used to calculate confidence intervals is
When the population standard deviation is not known the sampling distribution is a?
If the samples are drawn frm a normal population, when the population standard deviation is unknown and estimated by the sample standard deviation, the sampling distribution of the sample means follow a t-distribution.
Do small samples and large population variances usually underestimate or be close to population mean?
Small samples and large population variances imply that the estimate for the mean will be relatively poor. Whether or not it will result in an underestimate or overestimate depends on the distribution: with a symmetric distribution the two outcomes are equally likely.
