An unbiased estimator is a statistic that targets the value of the of the population parameter such that the sampling distribution of the statistic has a __________equal to the _________ of the corresponding parameter.
A) mean; mean
B) standard deviation; standard deviation
C) mean; standard deviation
D) range; range/4

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An unbiased estimator is defined as a statistic where the mean of its sampling distribution is equal to the true mean of the population parameter it estimates. This means that, on average, the estimator hits the target parameter.

An Unbiased Estimator Is a Statistic That Targets the Value