What is a sampling distribution of the mean, and what is the mean of a sampling distribution of the means?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Varies.

A sampling distribution of the mean is a theoretical distribution created from repeatedly sampling random samples from the population, calculating the mean for each of these samples, and plotting these means. The mean of the sampling distribution of the means is the population mean.

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