Answer to Question #120426 in Statistics and Probability for Joseph Se

Question #120426

The distribution of duration of unemployment for all 18-24 year-old Americans is nearly normal with mean 12.7 weeks and standard deviation 0.3 weeks. Suppose we randomly sample 20 people from this population, ask them about the duration of their unemployment (in number of weeks), and record the sample mean. We repeat this 5,000 times, and build a a distribution of sample means. What is the name of this distribution?

A. randomization distribution
B. sampling distribution
C. sample distribution
D. population distribution
E. bootstrap distribution

Expert's answer

The correct answer is

B. sampling distribution