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Chapter 10: Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
Figure 10-12:
Representationof the
Experimental Design for
Selecting a Random Sample
from a Population with Mean µ
The general point estimate for the population mean can then be computed
from the following relationship.
That is, the point estimate for the population mean
will be the sample
mean denoted by,
̅
. So, if we let the sample mean be the point estimate for
the population mean, then we can define