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jrubin

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A researcher obtains a sample of measured systolic blood pressures (in mmHg) for 50 randomly selected men. The mean of the 50 blood pressures is 136 mmHg. The value of 136 mmHg is one value that is part of a sampling distribution.
 
  Describe that sampling distribution.

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In testing the statistical significance of rS, the critical value is based upon .
 
  a. Npairs
 b. Npairs - 1
 c. Npairs - 2
 d. the total number of scores minus one



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Answer to Question 1

For all possible samples of size 50 from the population, list the sample mean together with the probability of that sample mean. This probability distribution of sample means is the sampling distribution of means.

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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