Which of the following statements is not true about a sampling distribution?
A)It gives probabilities for a statistic.
B)It gives characteristics of the estimator, such as bias and precision.
C)It is used for making inferences about a sample.
D)It is the probability distribution of a statistic.

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Sampling distributions are used for making inferences about a population, not about a sample. They describe how the value of a statistic (like the mean or proportion) would vary from sample to sample if we were to take many samples from the population.

Which of the Following Statements Is Not True About a Sampling