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Unit 5: Sampling Distributions

AP Statistics — Note Packet

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Key Terms

Population

The entire group we want to _.

Parameter

A characteristic of a _, usually denoted by Greek letters (p, μ).

Statistic

A characteristic calculated from a _, denoted by regular letters (p̂, x̄).

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a _ (like p̂ or x̄) if you took every possible sample of the same size.

Unbiased Estimator

An estimator whose sampling distribution is centered at the true population _.

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