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Describe the abstract idea of a sampling distribution and how it reflects the sample to sample variability of a sample statistic or point estimate. Identify the ...

Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

Confidence intervals are computed from a random sample and therefore they are also random. The long run behavior of a 95% confidence interval is such that we’d expect 95% of the confidence intervals ...

The assumption of iid observations that underlies many statistical procedures is called into question when analyzing complex survey data. The population structure--particularly the existence of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Brown and Zhao (2012) (Sankhyā, Series A, Volume 64, pp 611-625) developed a new test for the Poisson distribution and compared it with the ...

Oct. 8, 2008— -- Surveys based on a random sample of respondents are subject to sampling error – a calculation of how closely the results reflect the attitudes ...