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In Chapter 7 we looked at the properties of a sampling distribution of sample means. This sampling distribution has three very important properties:
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The mean of the sampling distribution is equal to the population mean:
$$ {\mu _{\bar X}} = \mu $$
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Argyrous, G. (1997). Estimation and confidence intervals. In: Statistics for Social Research. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14777-9_8
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