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🟢 Repeat: Standard Error and Sample Size

Answer without looking:

  1. SE formula?
  2. You want to halve your confidence interval width. How much more data?
  3. What does CLT guarantee about sample means?

Answers: 1. SE = σ / √n 2. 4× the data. Width ∝ 1/√n, so halving requires √n to double, meaning n quadruples. 3. They approach a normal distribution regardless of the underlying data distribution, with mean = population mean and SD = σ/√n.