7.7: Discussion Questions

Graduate-Level Statistics in Psychology · LibreTexts

0%

Contents

    Text

    Size
    100%
    Theme
    Typeface
    Line length
    Spacing

    From LibreTexts, under CC BY 4.0, as the source states it; its equations are written in TeX, which the PDF shows typeset. This page at LibreTexts.

    Discussion Questions

    1. What are the differences between the standard error of the mean and the standard deviation?
    2. Explain the process of how we can consider a sample as representative of the population.
    3. If you do not have a large sample size, is that a problem and why or why not?
    4. Complete this table on reasons to obtain a large sample size.

    Questions

    What happens if the sample size gets larger?

    What happens if the sample size gets smaller?

    Reasons

    		    

    This page titled 7.7: Discussion Questions was last modified on Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:56:59 GMT and is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Peter Ji.