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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Population and Sample

The population is the entire group of interest; a sample is the subset actually observed and measured.

Definition

Population values are parameters (μ, σ), and sample values are statistics (x̄, s). Sample size and selection method determine how well the sample represents the population.

Exam tip

Greek letters denote population parameters; Latin letters denote sample statistics.

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