What Could Cause a Sample Mean to Be a Poor

question 96

Multiple Choice

What could cause a sample mean to be a poor point estimate of the population mean?

• A)a small sample including several values at the high end of the population range
• B)a small,homogeneous sample from the population
• C)the sample standard deviation is large
• D)the sample standard deviation is small

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