The Expected Value of the Sampling Distribution of the Sample $\mu$

question 39

Multiple Choice

The expected value of the sampling distribution of the sample mean equals the population mean $\mu$ :

• A) only when the population is normally distributed.
• B) only when the sample size is large.
• C) only when the population is infinite.
• D) for all populations.

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