Answer the following questions in one or two well-constructed sentences.
a. What happens to the standard error of the mean if the sample size is increased?
b. What happens to the distribution of the sample means if the sample size is increased?
c. When using the distribution of sample means to estimate the population mean, what is the benefit of using larger sample sizes?
Answer the following questions in one or two well-constructed sentences.
a. What happens to the standard error of the mean if the sample size is increased?
b. What happens to the distribution of the sample means if the sample size is increased?
c. When using the distribution of sample means to estimate the population mean, what is the benefit of using larger sample sizes?
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Consider a population of five families with the following data representing the number of pets in each family.
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Family |
Number of Pets |
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A |
2 |
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B |
6 |
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C |
4 |
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D |
3 |
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E |
1 |
How many possible samples of size 2 can be drawn?
Write each of the possible samples and then determine the mean of each sample.
Determine the mean and the standard deviation of the population.
For the distribution of sample mean values, provide the mean and the standard error of the mean.
