Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Gosset, William Sealy (1908), The Probable Error of a Mean, Oxford University Press, USA, Biometrika, Retrieved on 2012-05-30Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: mathematics Memes
30 MAY 2012
The Importance of Large Samples
Any experiment may be regarded as forming an individual of a 'population' of experiments which might be performed under the same conditions. A series of experiments is a sample drawn from this population. Now any series of experiments is only of value in so far as it enables us to form a judgment as to the statistical constants of the population to which the experiments belong. In a great number of cases the question finally turns on the value of a mean, either directly, or as the mean diffe...Folksonomies: statistics sampling
Folksonomies: statistics sampling
Small samples introduce two potential errors.