If we plotted the resulting sample means as a frequency distribution or histogram,7 we would see that three samples had a mean of 3, means of 2 and 4 occurred in two samples each, and means of 1 and 5 occurred in only one sample each. The end result is a nice symmetrical distribution known as a sampling distribution. A sampling distribution is the frequency distribution of sample means (or whatever parameter you’re trying to estimate) from the same population.
