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Continuing with the earlier example, suppose that ten different samples of 100 people were drawn from the population, instead of just one.

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Continuing with the earlier example, suppose that ten different samples of 100 people were drawn from the population, instead of just one. The income means of these ten samples would not be expected to be exactly the same, because of sampling variability. Sampling variability is the tendency of the same statistic computed from a number of random samples drawn from the same population to differ.

Suppose that the first sample of 100 magazine subscribers was “returned” to the population (made available to be selected again), another sample of 100 subscribers selected at random, and the mean income of the new sample computed. If this process were repeated ten times, it might yield the following sample means:

27,500

27,192

28,736

26,454

28,527

28,407

27,592

27,684

28,827

27,809

These ten values are part of a sampling distribution. The sampling distribution of a statistic—in this case, of a mean—is the distribution obtained by computing the statistic for a large number of samples drawn from the same population.

You can compute the sample mean of this sampling distribution by summing the ten sample means and dividing by ten, which gives a distribution mean of 27,872. Suppose that the mean income of the entire population of subscribers to the magazine is $28,000. (You usually do not know what it is.) You can see in Figure 1 that the first sample mean ($27,500) was not a bad estimate of the population mean and that the mean of the distribution of ten sample means ($27,872) was even better.





Figure 1

Estimation of the population mean becomes progressively more accurate as more samples are taken.


The more sample means included in the sampling distribution, the more accurate the mean of the sampling distribution becomes as an estimate of the population mean.

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