SOCIAL STATISTICS
Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results Fifth Edition
The interval in which we can claim that population mean (or proportion) falls, based on a sample taken from the population definition. Also often referred to as a margin of error
Confidence interval
This tells you the row of the t-table to use when you’re testing a population claim or building a confidence interval. It is the sample size minus 1.
Degrees of freedom for a population claim or a confidence interval
The distribution of a statistic (such as a mean or a slope) using many samples taken from the same population
Sampling distribution
The error that occurs naturally when sampling, as a sample will seldom completely accurately reflect the population from which it was drawn
Sampling error
The standard deviation of a sampling distribution. It is the average distance all of our sample means are from the population mean
Standard error