7
  Sampling Theory
 
 

Outline

  1. Distributions
  2. The Normal Curve and z-Scores
  3. The Central Limit Theorem
  4. The Standard Error and Confidence Intervals
  5. Small Samples: The t-distribution
  6. Calculating Sample Size for Estimating Proportions
 

Examples and Illustrations

 
 

Links


Least You Should Know


 

Food for Thought

 
 

Concepts, terms, vocabulary

bimodal distribution (166)
central limit theorem (167)
confidence interval (172)
critical value (174)
cumulative mean (167)
distributions (163)
finite population correction (180)
frequency polygon (168)
leptokurtic (166)
modulus/absolute value (174)
normal distribution (163-164)
platykurtic (166)

sampling distribution (167)
skewed distribution (166)
standard deviation/sd (164)
standard error of the mean/sem (164)
symmetric distribution (166)
z-scores/standard scores (165)


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