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COnfussing qustion
Message posted by Lissy on October 16, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

True or False The shape and standard deviation of a population distribution of a variable can be estimated with a distribution of a sample of sufficient size

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Re: COnfussing qustion
Message posted by SOF on October 17, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Only estimators which are 'consistent' get better as the sample gets larger. With infinite populations such as the toss of a coin a sample can be very large and yet not representative of the population.

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