Standard error

Question 1

standard error

Answer 1

a means to quantify how good a statistic is at representing the population

Question 2

theoretical distributions

Answer 2

distributions that we dont typically produce or observe directly BUT we can still make estimates from the available data eg sampling distributions

Question 3

sampling distribution

Answer 3

frequency distribution of any
statistic…… were we to repeatedly calculate it many times from a series of randomly drawn
samples from the same underlying population

Question 4

the sampling distribution will always have the same characteristics

Answer 4

*same mean as population mean but narrower spread of scores

Question 5

Formula for standard error of the mean

Answer 5

SD of sample / SQRT of sample size

Question 6

what type of distribution is the sampling distribution of the mean

Answer 6

normal distribution

Question 7

confidence intervals

Answer 7

putting an upper and lower bound around where we think the population mean is likely to be given our sample mean

Question 8

68.3%

Answer 8

% of population that falls within +/- 1 SE

Question 9

95%

Answer 9

standard level of confidence wanted