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SA M P L IN G

DIST R IB U T I ON
SAMPLING
DISTRIBUTION
SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION

The probability distribution of a statistic


is called a sampling distribution.
SAMPLING
DISTRIBUTION
OF THE
SAMPLING
MEAN
• The mean of a population, µ, is a parameter that is
often of interest but usually the value of µ is
unknown.
• In order to obtain information about the population
mean, a sample is taken and the sample mean, , is
calculated.
• The value of the sample mean is determined by the
sample actually selected.
• The sample mean can assume several different values,
whereas the population mean is constant.
SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF THE
SAMPLING MEAN

- It is the set of all possible values of the sample


mean along with the probabilities of occurrence of
the possible values.
Example:
Suppose the five cities with the most African-American-owned
businesses measured in thousands is given in the following
table.
• If X represents the number of African-American-owned
businesses in thousands for this population consisting of five
cities, then the probability distribution for X is shown in the
table below.

𝝁 =𝟑𝟔 ; 𝝈 =𝟒 . 𝟐𝟒
The following table gives all the possible samples of three cities,
the sample values, and the means of the samples.
SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEAN
SAMPLING
ERROR
• When the sample mean is used to estimate the
population mean, an error is usually made. This error is
called the sampling error, and is defined to be the
absolute difference between the sample mean and the
population mean. The sampling error is defined by
SAMPLING ERRORS AND PROBABILITIES ASSOCIATED
WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT SAMPLE MEANS
MEAN AND
STANDARD
DEVIATION OF
THE SAMPLE
MEAN
• Since the sample mean has a distribution, it is a random
variable and has a mean and a standard deviation.
• The mean of the sample mean is represented by the
symbol and the standard deviation of the sample mean
is represented by .
• The standard deviation of the sample mean is referred
to as the standard error of the mean.
Consider all samples of size 5 from this population:
2 5 6 8 10
12 13
1. Compute the mean and the standard deviation of the
population.
2. Construct the sampling distribution of the sample means
3. Calculate the mean of the sampling distribution of the
sample means. Compare this to the mean of the population.
4. Calculate the mean of the sampling distribution of the
sample means. Compare this to the mean of the population.
Relationship Between Population Mean
and Mean of the Sample Mean

𝝁 =𝝁 𝒙
Relationship Between Population SD and SD of the
Sample Mean

𝝈
𝝈𝒙= ×
√ 𝒏
𝑵−𝒏
𝑵 − 𝟏 √
If

𝝈
𝝈𝒙=
√𝒏

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