It Happens to Be the Case That the Standard Error

question 41

Multiple Choice

It happens to be the case that the standard error of the sampling distribution of sample means

• A) is minimal.
• B) is approximately equal to that in the population.
• C) gets larger as the sample size increases.
• D) is minimal and gets larger as the sample size increases.

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