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Population Means

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AP Statistics

Definition

Population means refer to the average value of a specific characteristic or variable in an entire population.

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Honors Statistics

Practice Questions (5)

What does it mean if the confidence interval for the difference in two population means contains zero?
In a confidence interval for the difference of two population means, a wider interval indicates:
What would be the center of the sampling distribution for the difference in sample means if the true population means for nonfiction books is 430 copies and fiction books is 310 copies?
What would be the center of the sampling distribution for the difference in sample means if the true population means for strawberry ice cream is 300 scoops and chocolate ice cream is 500 scoops?
What would happen to the center of the sampling distribution for the difference in sample means if the true population means stayed the same but the sample sizes increased?

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