Learning Objectives

  • Define sampling distribution.
  • Compare theoretical and experimental sampling strategies.
  • Identify three characteristics of the sampling distribution of the sample mean.
  • Calculate the mean and standard error of a sampling distribution of the sample mean and draw the shape of this distribution.
  • Identify three characteristics of the sampling distribution of the sample variance.
  • Explain the relationship between standard error, standard deviation, and sample size.
  • Compute z transformations for the sampling distribution of the sample mean.
  • Summarize the standard error of the mean in APA format.
  • Compute the estimate for the standard error of the mean using SPSS.