Statistics for Social Understanding: With Stata and SPSS - Student Res
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Central Limit Theorem - States that if a sample size is large enough, the sampling distribution (under infinite repeated samples) will be a normal curve, centered around the true population mean or proportion, regardless of whether the actual variable is normally distributed in the population.


S

sampling distribution - A frequency distribution of a statistic (e.g., mean or proportion) obtained through a theoretical repeated sampling process.

standard error - The standard deviation of the sa


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