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what happens to the std error of the mean and the confidence interval if sample size decreases?

  #2

it shud increase
coz std error of mean =s.d /sq root of n
if n decreases---> std error of mean will increase

CI =mean +/- z(std error of mean)
if n decreases ---> CI will increase

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  #3

thanks mash







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