Effect of sample size on variability: Increasing the sample size n decreases the standard deviation of the sampling distribution by a factor of sqrt(n).
How to apply it: To cut the standard error in half, quadruple the sample size.
Course: AP Statistics · Unit: Sampling Distributions
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