A sampling distribution is a concept used in statistics. It is a probability distribution of a statistic obtained from a larger number of samples drawn from a specific population. The sampling distribution of a given population is the distribution of frequencies of a range of different outcomes that could possibly occur for a statistic of a population. This allows entities like governments and businesses to make more well-informed decisions based on the information they gather. There are a few methods of sampling distribution used by researchers, including the sampling distribution of a mean.