Sociology 3306A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Central Limit Theorem, Sampling Distribution, Standard Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 3306A/B
• Professor: Teresa Abada

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Element unit of which a population is comprised and which is selected in a sample. Target population population to which we want to generalize our results. Census ability/goal of getting as complete a measurement of the entire population. Representativeness quality of the sample of having the same distribution of characteristics as the. Sampling frame list/quasi-list of elements composing a population from which a sample is selected. Sample subset of elements selected for a study (sample taken using the sampling frame) population from which it was selected. Random sampling procedure each element has equal chance of selection. Likelihood of selection into the sample must be knowable (must be knowable in theory ?) Parameter summary description of a given variable in a population (actual) Statistic summary description of a variable in a sample (estimated) A distribution of a statistic (such as a mean) across all the random samples that could be drawn from a population. A sampling distribution is a theoretical distribution.