According to the National Institute of Health, about 37% of high school seniors have vaped in the past year. Suppose that a surv
ey contacts an SRS of 400 high school seniors and calculates the sample proportion, , in this sample who have vaped in the past year. What is the mean of the sampling distribution of ?
Using the Central Limit Theorem, it is found that the mean of the sampling distribution of sample proportions is 0.37.
The <em>Central Limit Theorem</em> establishes that, for a <u>proportion p in a sample of size n</u>, the sampling distribution of sample proportions has:
Mean .
Standard error
For this problem, about 37% of high school seniors have vaped in the past year, hence .
Then, the mean of the sampling distribution of sample proportions is 0.37.