As Standard Error Of The Mean Increases
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using Windows 95, 98 or NT. When asked if you want to install the sampling control, click on Yes. When we draw a sample from a population, as the sample size increases the standard error of the mean and calculate a sample statistic such as the mean, we could ask as the sample size increases the standard error of the mean decreases how well does the sample statistic (called a point estimate) represent the same value for the population? That as the sample size increases the standard error of the mean increases. true false is, if we calculate the mean of a sample, how close will it be to the mean of the population? Of course, the answer will change depending on the particular as the sample size increases the standard error of the mean gets sample that we draw. But could we develop a measure that would at least give us an indication of how well we expect the sample mean to represent the population mean? We could subtract the sample mean from the population mean to get an idea of how close the sample mean is to the population mean. (Technically, we don't know the
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value of the population mean -- if we knew the population mean, then there would be no sense in calculating the sample mean. But in theory, it is possible to get an arbitrarily good estimate of the population mean and we can use that estimate as the population mean.) That is, we can calculate how much the sample mean deviates from the population mean. But is this particular sample representative of all of the samples that we could select? It may or may not be. So, we should draw another sample and determine how much it deviates from the population mean. In fact, we might want to do this many, many times. We could then calculate the mean of the deviates, to get an average measure of how much the sample means differ from the population mean. The standard error of the mean does basically that. To determine the standard error of the mean, many samples are selected from the population. For each sample, the mean of that sample is calculated. The standard deviation of those means is t
using Windows 95, 98 or NT. When asked if you want to install the sampling control, click on Yes. When we draw a sample from a population, and calculate a
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sample statistic such as the mean, we could ask how well does the as sample size increases the standard error of m sample statistic (called a point estimate) represent the same value for the population? That is, if we calculate the find the mean and standard error of the sample means that is normally distributed mean of a sample, how close will it be to the mean of the population? Of course, the answer will change depending on the particular sample that we draw. But could http://academic.udayton.edu/gregelvers/psy216/activex/sampling.htm we develop a measure that would at least give us an indication of how well we expect the sample mean to represent the population mean? We could subtract the sample mean from the population mean to get an idea of how close the sample mean is to the population mean. (Technically, we don't know the value of the population mean -- if we knew http://academic.udayton.edu/gregelvers/psy216/activex/sampling.htm the population mean, then there would be no sense in calculating the sample mean. But in theory, it is possible to get an arbitrarily good estimate of the population mean and we can use that estimate as the population mean.) That is, we can calculate how much the sample mean deviates from the population mean. But is this particular sample representative of all of the samples that we could select? It may or may not be. So, we should draw another sample and determine how much it deviates from the population mean. In fact, we might want to do this many, many times. We could then calculate the mean of the deviates, to get an average measure of how much the sample means differ from the population mean. The standard error of the mean does basically that. To determine the standard error of the mean, many samples are selected from the population. For each sample, the mean of that sample is calculated. The standard deviation of those means is then calculated. (Remember that the standard deviation is a measure of how much the data deviate from the
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