Quiz: Sampling Distributions

1. The best description of the sampling distribution of a sample statistic is
a. the distribution of the values of the statistic for all individuals in the sample.
b. the distribution of the values of the statistic for some samples, with the same size, selected from the population.
c. the distribution of the values of the statistic for all possible samples, with the same size, selected from the population.
2. Sampling variability means that
a. the value of the sample statistic will vary for the samples.
b. the sample statistic will vary from the population parameter.
c. the value of the sample statistic will vary for different sample sizes.
3. Which is not true for the mean of the sampling distribution?
a. It is the mean of the statistic for all of the samples in the distribution.
b. It is the same as the population parameter.
c. It depends on the sample size.

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