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Sampling is a technique to draw samples from a population, that is, Sampling is a process. The sampling distribution is a probability distribution of a statistic (such as mean, variance, proportion, etc.). This category contains posts about sampling and sampling distribution.
In Statistics, sampling error also called estimation error is the amount of inaccuracy in estimating some value that is caused by only a portion of a population (i.e. sample) rather than the whole population. It is the difference between the statistic (value of the sample, such as sample mean) and …
Before Differentiating the Sampling and Non Sampling Errors, let us define the Error term first. The difference between an estimated value and the population’s true value is called an error. Since a sample estimate is used to describe a characteristic of a population. A sample being only a part of …