SAMPLING

DISTRIBUTION
BY: JEZZA MAE ARCEGONO
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• What does it mean?

A sampling distribution is a probability distribution of a statistic
obtained from a larger number of samples drawn from a specific
population. The sampling distribution of a given population is the
distribution of frequencies of a range of different outcomes that could
possibly occur for a statistic of a population.
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• Why is it important?
Sampling distributions are important for inferential statistics. In
practice, one will collect sample data and, from these data, estimate
parameters of the population distribution. Thus, knowledge of the
sampling distribution can be very useful in making inferences about the
overall population.
The overall shape of the distribution is symmetric and approximately
normal. There are no outliers or other important deviations from the
overall pattern. The center of the distribution is very close to the true
population mean.
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If we have two independent populations with means μ1 and μ2 , and
variances σ1 2 and σ2 2 , and
If X-bar1 (𝒙ഥ𝟏) and X-bar2 (𝒙ഥ𝟐) are the sample means of two independent
random samples of sizes n1 and n2 from these populations:
Then the sampling distribution of:

is approximately standard normal, if the conditions of the central limit theorem

apply.
If the two populations are normal, then the sampling distribution of Z is exactly
standard normal.