Describe the abstract idea of a sampling distribution and how it reflects the sample to sample variability of a sample statistic or point estimate. Identify the ...

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Central Limit Theorem: A sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normally distributed if the sample size is sufficiently large. This is true no matter what the population distribution is.

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The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 1202-1225 (24 pages) This paper analyzes the performance of importance sampling distributions for computing expectations with respect ...

Stratified sampling is considered, where (a) the mean integrated squared error (MISE) metric is used in place of the mean squared error (MSE) metric; (b) the entire ...