Distribution of Sample Means, the Central Limit Theorem
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Distribution of Sample Means, the Central Limit Theorem • If we take a new sample, the sample mean varies. Thus the sample mean has a distribution, called the sampling distribution. • Central Limit Theorem says that as sample size, n, gets larger, the distribution of sample means is approximately – Normal, and has – Same mean as original distribution; that is, Mean = – Standard deviation = original standard deviation over square root sample size; that is, Standard Deviation =
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Distribution of Sample Means, the Central Limit Theorem. If we take a new sample, the sample mean varies. Thus the sample mean has a distribution, called the sampling distribution . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Distribution of Sample Means, the Central Limit Theorem
• If we take a new sample, the sample mean varies. Thus the sample mean has a distribution, called the sampling distribution.
• Central Limit Theorem says that as sample size, n, gets larger, the distribution of sample means is approximately– Normal, and has– Same mean as original distribution; that is, Mean = – Standard deviation = original standard deviation over square root
sample size; that is, Standard Deviation =
Normal with varied µ and σ = 1
Normal with varied σ and µ = 0
Standard Normal with µ = 0 and σ = 1
Symmetric: Mean = 0
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