LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Take random samples from populations.
- Distinguish between population parameters and sample
statistics.
- Apply the central limit theorem.
- Derive sampling distributions of sample means and
proportions.
- Explain why sample statistics are good estimators of
population parameters.
- Judge one estimator as better than another based on desirable
properties of estimators.
- Apply the concept of degrees of freedom.
- Identify special sampling methods.
- Compute sampling distributions and related results using
templates.
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