Statistics, more on sample error

Let us first take a look at what happens to the sample error as the size of the sample grows. In a sample, each of the measurements \( x_i \) can be associated with its own stochastic variable \( X_i \). The stochastic variable \( \overline X_n \) for the sample mean \( \bar{x}_n \) is then just a linear combination, already familiar to us:

$$ \overline X_n = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n X_i $$

All the coefficients are just equal \( 1/n \). The PDF of \( \overline X_n \), denoted by \( p_{\overline X_n}(x) \) is the desired PDF of the sample means.