Samples and populations, estimates and parameters

Pierre Jolicoeur
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Pierre Jolicoeur: University of Montreal, Department of Biological Science

Chapter Chapter 2 in Introduction to Biometry, 1999, pp 6-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The words sample and population have different and more restricted meanings in statistics and in biometry than in common everyday language. In statistics, a population (also called a universe)is a set of beings (or the set of qualitative or quantitative observations which can be made on those beings) about which information is desired and which is studied through a subset, called a sample, drawn from it at random, that is in as impartial (unbiased) a manner as possible.

Keywords: Statistical Population; Sensory Perception; Inductive Reasoning; InductIve Inference; Greek Letter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4777-8_3

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