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Populations and Samples: Population Vs Sample
Populations and Samples: Population Vs Sample
The study of statistics revolves around the study of data sets. This lesson describes two important
types of data sets -populations and samples. Along the way, we'll introduce simple random
sampling, the main method used in this tutorial to select samples.
Population vs Sample
The main difference between a population and sample has to do with how observations are assigned
to the data set.
Depending on the sampling method, a sample can have fewer observations than the population, the
same number of observations, or more observations. More than one sample can be derived from the
same population.
Other differences have to do with nomenclature, notation, and computations. For example,
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