Sampling distribution of the sample proportion
It collects p-hat from every sample of size n; it centers at p with standard deviation equal to the square root of p(1-p)/n.
Collect (p-hat, the sample proportion) from every possible sample of size and you have its sampling distribution, centered on the population proportion: . Its spread is (the square root of p times one minus p, all over n). With and , that is . The shape is close to normal when and , which holds here because and .
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