In statistics a sampling distribution or finite-sample distribution is the probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample. Sampling distributions are important in statistics because they provide a major simplification on the route to statistical inference. More specifically, they allow analytical considerations to be based ...
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(from the article `statistics`) A sampling distribution is a probability distribution for a sample statistic. Knowledge of the sampling distribution is necessary for the ...
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The sampling distribution describes probabilities associated with a statistic when a random sample is drawn from a population.
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The sampling distribution describes probabilities associated with a statistic when a random sample is drawn from a population.
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The distribution of a statistic based on all possible samples that can be drawn according to a specific sampling plan. The term almost always refers to random sampling, and the statistic is usually a function of the n sample observations.
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