Stat1 Notation Flashcards
To study the notation for means and standard deviations of samples, populations, and sampling distributions.
“Xbar”

Mean of the sample

Standard deviation of the sample
“P sub s”

Proportion in the sample
“P sub u”

Proportion in the population
“mu”

Mean of the population
“sigma”

Standard deviation of the population
“mu sub Xbar”

Mean of the sampling distribution of means
“sigma sub Xbar”

Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means
a.k.a “standard error of the mean”
“mu sub p”

Mean of the sampling distribution of proportions
“sigma sub p”

Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of proportions
a.k.a. “standard error of the proportion”
Mean of the sample
“Xbar”

Standard deviation of the sample

Proportion in the sample
“P sub s”

Proportion in the population
“P sub u”

Mean of the population
“mu”

Standard deviation of the population
“sigma”

Mean of the sampling distribution of means
“mu sub Xbar”

Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means
a.k.a “standard error of the mean”
“sigma sub Xbar”

Mean of the sampling distribution of proportions
“mu sub p”

Standard deviation of the sampling distribution of proportions
a.k.a. “standard error of the proportion”
“sigma sub p”
