FORMULAS
𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡                 Variance of the sampling distribution of the
 𝑃(𝐸) =
        𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒             sample means (with replacement)
Mean of the Probability Distribution                                                ̅ ) ∙ (𝑋
                                                                        𝜎2𝑥̅ = ∑[ 𝑃(𝑋      ̅ − 𝜇)2 ]
              𝜇 = 𝐸(𝑋) = ∑(𝑋 ∙ 𝑃(𝑋))                       Mean of the sampling distribution of the sample
                                                           mean (without replacement)
Variance of the Probability Distribution
                                                                                         ∑𝑋̅
                                                                                𝜇𝑥̅ =
              𝝈𝟐 = ∑[𝑿𝟐 ∙ 𝑷(𝑿)] − 𝝁𝟐                                                      𝑛
                                                           Variance of the sampling distribution of the
Standard Deviation of the Probability Distribution
                                                           sample mean (without replacement)
              𝝈 = √∑[𝑿𝟐 ∙ 𝑷(𝑿)] − 𝝁𝟐                                                    ̅ − 𝜇𝑥̅ )2
                                                                                      ∑(𝑋
                                                                             𝜎𝑥̅2 =
                                                                                          𝑛
Converting a random variable x to a standard
normal variable z OR dealing with data from                Standard Deviation of the sampling distribution
parameters                                                   of the sample mean (without replacement)
                               𝑥−𝜇
                       𝑧=                                                         ∑(𝑋̅ − 𝜇𝑥̅ )2
                                𝜎                                          𝜎𝑥̅ = √
                                                                                       𝑛
Converting standard normal variable z to
random variable x                                          Convert the raw score to the standard score in
                                                           central limit OR dealing with data from sample
                       𝑥 = 𝑧𝜎 + 𝜇                          mean
POPULATION MEAN                                                                        𝑥̅ − 𝜇
                                                                                𝑧=        𝜎
                                     ∑𝑥
                               𝜇=                                                       √𝑛
                                     𝑁
                                                           Lower limit : 𝐿𝐿 = 𝑋̅ − 𝐸
POPULATION VARIANCE
                                                           Upper limit: 𝑈𝐿 = 𝑋̅ + 𝐸
                           2
                            ∑(𝑥 − 𝜇)2
                        𝜎 =                                                            𝜎
                                𝑁                          Margin of error: 𝐸 = 𝑍𝛼 ∙
                                                                                  2    √𝑛
POPULATION STANDARD DEVIATION
                                                           Length Of Confidence Interval:
                           ∑(𝑥 − 𝜇)2                                     L = UL – LL 𝑜𝑟 𝐿 = 2𝐸
                        𝜎=√
                               𝑁
                                                           Determining Sample Size
SAMPLE MEAN
                                                                                       𝑧𝛼 𝜎       2
                                                                                         2
                               ∑𝑥                                             𝑛=(             )
                        𝑥̄ =                                                            𝐸
                               𝑛
SAMPLE VARIANCE
                           ∑(𝑥 − 𝑥̄ )2
                   𝑠2 =
                             𝑛−1
SAMPLE STANDARD DEVIATION
                     ∑(𝑥 − 𝑥̄ )2
                  𝑠=√
                       𝑛−1
Combination of N (population size) objects
taken n (sample size) at a time.
                                𝑁!
                  𝐶
                 𝑁 𝑛
                       =
                           [𝑛! (𝑁 − 𝑛)!]
Mean of the sampling distribution of the sample
means. (with replacement)
                  𝜇𝑥̅ = ∑[𝑋̅ ∙ 𝑃(𝑋̅ )]