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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 xi can be associated with its own stochastic variable Xi. The stochastic variable ¯Xn for the sample mean ˉxn is then just a linear combination, already familiar to us:

¯Xn=1nni=1Xi

All the coefficients are just equal 1/n. The PDF of ¯Xn, denoted by p¯Xn(x) is the desired PDF of the sample means.