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exam 2
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- 1What are inferential statistics and what is being inferred?a branch of statistics that involves drawing conclusions or making inferences about a population based on a sample of data. The primary goal of inferential statistics is to generalize the findings from a sample to a larger population. It helps us make informed decisions, test hypotheses, and answer research questions
- 2What is the sampling distribution of the mean?The sampling distribution of the mean is a theoretical probability distribution that shows all the possible values that the sample mean can take when multiple random samples of a fixed size are drawn from a population.
- 3What is its purpose in inferential statistics?the sampling distribution of the mean is a critical tool in inferential statistics because it provides a theoretical framework for making inferences about a population based on sample data.
- 4How does sample size affect the properties of the sampling distribution of the mean
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