We are interested in developing a sampling distribution for the average time Olympic marathon runners complete a marathon in. This is based on the 2012 Men's Olympic Marathon which had 85 finishers. Data is available at StatKey, select Sampling Distribution for a Mean, then change the data set to Olympic Marathon-2e (Minutes).

Summary Statistics
Count Mean StDev Median
85 140.592 8.007 139


For samples of size n=10\displaystyle {n}={10} use the standard error formula or create a sampling distribution by running at least 6000 samples based on their data set.

The standard deviation for the population is .

The standard error for the distribution of sample means from samples of size 10 is .