On a final exam a student was asked to define sampling error. He wrote: "sampling error is roughly the average difference between a sample statistic and the population parameter". Unfortunately, this is not the definition of sampling error, but it is the correct definiition of something else. What has the student defined?

On a final exam a student was asked to define sampling error. He wrote: "sampling error is roughly the average difference between a sample statistic and the population parameter". Unfortunately, this is not the definition of sampling error, but it is the correct definiition of something else. What has the student defined?

College Algebra (MindTap Course List)

12th Edition

ISBN:9781305652231

Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Publisher:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Chapter8: Sequences, Series, And Probability

Section8.7: Probability

Problem 58E: What is meant by the sample space of an experiment?

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