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A large standard deviation indicates that the distribution is heavily weighted far from the mean. Take the following example:
{1,1,1,1,1,19,19,19,19,19} Mean is 10 and StDev = 9.49
Now look at this data set: {5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}
Mean is still 10, but StDev = 3.5
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True or false a distribution of sample means is normally distributed with a mean equal to the population mean and standard deviation equal to the standard error of the mean?
True.
What are the four numbers have the smallest possible standard deviation?
If all four numbers are the same, there is no standard deviation. The mean will be equal to all 4 numbers, resulting in a 0 standard deviation. Ex) 5,5,5,5
Area to the left of the mean in a normal distribution is equal to?
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A standard normal distribution has a mean of and standard deviation of?
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