2.5: What happens to sample averages as the sample size $(N)$ increases

Supplementary Resource Materials

(to deepen your understanding of the foundations for hypothesis testing)

• The Theoretical Basis for Inferential Statistical Methods
  • Quantitative Data Analysis Issues (Ray Cooksey)
  • The Logic of Statistical Inference (Ray Cooksey)
• Sampling Distribution, Sampling Error, and Nonsampling Errors
  • Dancing Statistics: explaining the concept of ‘sampling’ and ‘standard error’ through dance (bpsmediacentre)
  • Sampling Distributions: An Introduction (jbstatistics)
• Mean and Standard Deviation of the Sampling Distribution (of the sample mean)
  • Standard Error of the Mean (Brandon Foltz) Relevant to the situation when a population mean (a parameter) is to be estimated from a sample mean.