Describe what a sampling distribution of a sample statistic is: Many opinion sur

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Describe what a sampling distribution of a sample statistic is: Many opinion surveys are conducted by mail. In such a sampling procedure, a random sample of persons is selected from among a list of people who are supposed to constitute a target population. Each is sent a questionnaire and is requested to complete and return the questionnaire to the pollster, Suggest a method the pollster could use to choose a random sample of people to send the questionnaires to? Why might this type of survey yield a sample that would produce biased inferences, even if the sample is chosen randomly? Suppose that random sample of size 200 is selected from a population that is exponentially distributed. The resulting sampling distribution of the mean would be distributed Normal Uniform Exponential Binomial None of the above

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From central limit theorem, it is normal distribution.

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A sample statistic is an estimate, based onsample data, of a population parameter.

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