Suppose an unbiased coin is tossed repeatedly 25 times under the same conditions.
What is the standard deviation of the proportion of heads in 25 tosses?
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JNU SSS 2016 Question 3: Sampling distributions and limit theorems
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This question is on Sampling distributions of the mean and proportion, part of Sampling distributions and limit theorems in Statistics.
How sample statistics vary from sample to sample and how precisely they estimate.
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