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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 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.