Describe how the distribution of sample means changes as sample size increases. What is the advantage of a larger sample size?

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The goal of this exercise is to observe the effect of sampling by treating the 100 SHS students as target population and drawing random samples. The table below shows the height in centimeter of 100 senior high school students at Hope School of Fisheries.

      1. Find the population mean height of 100 senior high students.
      2. By simple random sampling, take a sample of 10 individuals and record the sample mean. Do this 5 times. That is, you will have a set of 5 sample means (point estimates).
      3. Do all sample means from item b vary? How do these sample means compare to the population mean?
      4. Repeat (b) but this time take a sample of 20 individuals. How do these sample means compare to the population mean?
      5. Repeat (b) but this time take a sample of 35 individuals. How do these sample means compare to the population mean?
      6. Describe how the distribution of sample means changes as sample size increases.
      7. What is the advantage of a larger sample size?

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