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Fil1 Stats Oral Com Rev.
Fil1 Stats Oral Com Rev.
POPULATION - consists of all the members of the group about which SLOVIN'S FORMULA - used to calculate the sample size (n) given
we want to draw a conclusion the population size (N) and a margin of error (e) - computed as
n=N/(1+Ne2)
SAMPLE - a portion or part of the population
RANDOM VARIABLE - a variable whose possible values are
PARAMETER - a numerical index describing a characteristic of numerical outcomes of random phenomenon
population
DISCRETE - one which may take on only a countable
STATISTIC - a numerical index describing a characteristic of a number of distinct values (0,1,2,3...)
sample
CONTINUOUS - one which take an infinite number of
Source of Data possible values