Which of the following is not true about a sampling distribution of means?

a. A sampling distribution of sample size 10 would be different from a sampling distribution of sample size 11.
b. The standard deviation of a sampling distribution of sample size 1 is larger than the sampling distribution of sample size 5.
c. Sampling distributions are not normally distributed.
d. The variability in a sample distribution depends on the mean of the distribution.


Ans: c. Sampling distributions are not normally distributed.

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