Question

A sample of 148 college students reports sleeping an average of 6.85 hours on weeknights. Given a large enough sample size, which distribution can be used, and what does the bootstrap distribution reveal about the standard error?

A) Normal distribution; The standard error is SE.
B) Chi-square distribution; The standard error is SE.
C) Normal distribution; The standard error is not affected by sample size.
D) Bootstrap distribution; The standard error is SE.

Answer 1

The normal distribution can be used and the standard error is SE.

Step-by-step explanation:

The distribution that can be used is the normal distribution. The bootstrap distribution reveals that the standard error is SE. In statistics, the bootstrap method is used to estimate the sampling distribution of a statistic. It involves resampling the original sample multiple times to create bootstrap samples, from which the statistic of interest can be calculated.