Week 6

Question 1

calculating the mean of many samples and putting those means together to form a distribution

Answer 1

distribution of sample means

Question 2

the spread of the sampling distribution

Answer 2

standard error

Question 3

the distribution of sample means approximates a normal distribution as the sample size gets larger, regardless of the population’s distribution

Answer 3

central limit theorem

Question 4

as our sample size increases, the probability that our sample mean is an accurate representation of the true population mean also increases

Answer 4

law of large numbers

Question 5

what we observe in our sample mean versus what we expected based on the population from which that sample mean was calculated

Answer 5

observed effect