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The mean of a sample is a single value and so its distribution is a single value with probability 1.

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Which of the following is true regarding the sampling distribution of the mean for a large sample size?

It has the same shape, mean, and standard deviation as the population.


What is the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?

Frequently it's impossible or impractical to test the entire universe of data to determine probabilities. So we test a small sub-set of the universal database and we call that the sample. Then using that sub-set of data we calculate its distribution, which is called the sample distribution. Normally we find the sample distribution has a bell shape, which we actually call the "normal distribution." When the data reflect the normal distribution of a sample, we call it the Student's t distribution to distinguish it from the normal distribution of a universe of data. The Student's t distribution is useful because with it and the small number of data we test, we can infer the probability distribution of the entire universal data set with some degree of confidence.


When using the distribution of sample mean to estimate the population mean what is the benefit of using larger sample sizes?

The variance decreases with a larger sample so that the sample mean is likely to be closer to the population mean.


How many observations to assume a Normal distribution?

32 if you sample is a random sample. Other methods look at the shape of the data and how skewed it is.


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.

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What is the expected shape of the distribution of the sample mean?

The distribution of the sample mean is bell-shaped or is a normal distribution.


Which of the following is true regarding the sampling distribution of the mean for a large sample size?

It has the same shape, mean, and standard deviation as the population.


How does the number of repetitions effect the shape of the normal distribution?

When we discuss a sample drawn from a population, the larger the sample, or the large the number of repetitions of the event, the more certain we are of the mean value. So, when the normal distribution is considered the sampling distribution of the mean, then more repetitions lead to smaller values of the variance of the distribution.


When the sample size is large valid confidence intervals can be established for the population mean irrespective of the shape of the underlying distribution?

Yes, but that begs the question: how large should the sample size be?


Which estimator will consistently have an approximately normal distribution?

The sample mean is an estimator that will consistently have an approximately normal distribution, particularly due to the Central Limit Theorem. As the sample size increases, the distribution of the sample mean approaches a normal distribution regardless of the original population's distribution, provided the samples are independent and identically distributed. This characteristic makes the sample mean a robust estimator for large sample sizes.


How do you calculate distribution of sample means?

The sample mean is distributed with the same mean as the popualtion mean. If the popolation variance is s2 then the sample mean has a variance is s2/n. As n increases, the distribution of the sample mean gets closer to a Gaussian - ie Normal - distribution. This is the basis of the Central Limit Theorem which is important for hypothesis testing.


What is the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?

Frequently it's impossible or impractical to test the entire universe of data to determine probabilities. So we test a small sub-set of the universal database and we call that the sample. Then using that sub-set of data we calculate its distribution, which is called the sample distribution. Normally we find the sample distribution has a bell shape, which we actually call the "normal distribution." When the data reflect the normal distribution of a sample, we call it the Student's t distribution to distinguish it from the normal distribution of a universe of data. The Student's t distribution is useful because with it and the small number of data we test, we can infer the probability distribution of the entire universal data set with some degree of confidence.


How do you determine your sample score on the comparison distribution?

To determine your sample score on the comparison distribution, you first need to calculate the sample mean and standard deviation. Then, you can use these statistics to find the z-score, which indicates how many standard deviations your sample mean is from the population mean. By comparing this z-score to critical values from the standard normal distribution, you can assess the significance of your sample score in relation to the comparison distribution.


Why you need sampling distribution?

in order to calculate the mean of the sample's mean and also to calculate the standard deviation of the sample's


The distribution of sample means consists of?

A set of probabilities over the sampling distribution of the mean.


When using the distribution of sample mean to estimate the population mean what is the benefit of using larger sample sizes?

The variance decreases with a larger sample so that the sample mean is likely to be closer to the population mean.


What does the Central Limit Theorem say about the traditional sample size that separates a large sample size from a small sample size?

The Central Limit Theorem states that the sampling distribution of the sample means approaches a normal distribution as the sample size gets larger — no matter what the shape of the population distribution. This fact holds especially true for sample sizes over 30.

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