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The closer the sample mean is to the population mean,
a. the larger the sampling error
b. the smaller the sampling error
c. the sampling error equals 1
d. None of these alternatives is correct.

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
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ISBN: 9781938168208

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