MATH 1F92 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.1: Sampling Distribution, Standard Deviation, Random Variable
9 Mar 2018
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A measure that describes an entire population. A measure that describes a sample of a population. A sampling distribution of a statistic is a probability distribution for all possible values of the statistic computed. X is the probability distribution of a random variable. N" from a population with mean " and standard deviation ". Imagine our class of math 1f92 as a population, and we wanted to find out the amount of time it takes to complete a math 1f92 assignment. Usually, we would ask something along the lines of how long would it take a student to complete a math 1f92 assignment , To do this, we would: find a sample of students in the class, take the mean to get an idea of how one individual student is doing on average. With a sampling distribution of a mean, we"d now ask something along the lines of.
