SOLUTION: a) Explain how a distribution of means differs from a sample mean and b) why is a sample mean only an estimate of the population mean?
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Question 1054775: a) Explain how a distribution of means differs from a sample mean and b) why is a sample mean only an estimate of the population mean?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a) a distribution of means is a collection of various individual sample means that have been computed.
b) The mean of the sample means will be the mean of the population.
a particular sample mean only an estimate of that population mean.
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