The Sampling Distribution of the Mean Is

question 25

Multiple Choice

The sampling distribution of the mean is

• A) the population mean.
• B) the distribution of the population mean over many populations.
• C) the distribution of sample means over repeated samples.
• D) the mean of the distribution of the sample.

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