Population and

Sample
Group 1
 What is
Population?
- In statistics, a population is the entire pool from which 
a statistical sample is drawn. A population may refer to an 
entire group of people, objects, events, hospital visits, 
or measurements. A population can thus be said
 to be an aggregate observation of subjects grouped 
Together by a common feature. - Kenton (2019)
What is
Sample? 
A population commonly contains too many individuals to study
conveniently, so an investigation is often restricted to one or more
samples drawn from it. A well-chosen sample will contain most of the
information about a particular population parameter but the relation
between the sample and the population must be such as to allow true
inferences to be made about a population from that sample. - BMJ
Publishing Group LTD. (2020) 
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What's their difference? 
 1
SAMPLE VS.
. 
POPULATION
A population includes all of the  elements
from a set of data.
Meanwhile, A sample consists one or more
observations drawn from the population.
 2. 
sample is the group of individuals who actually participate in
your study. These are the individuals who you end up
interviewing (e.g., in a qualitative study) or who actually
complete your survey (e.g., in a quantitative study). People who
could have been participants in your study but did not actually
participate are not considered part of your sample
On the other hand, your population is the broader group of
people to whom you intend to generalize the results of your
study. Your sample will always be a subset of your population.
Your exact population will depend on the scope of your study.
 Example:
Sample
you e-mailed study invitations to 200 people on
a listserv and 100 of them end up participating in
your study (i.e., complete your survey or your
experiment). Your sample is the 100 individuals
who participated in your study. The 100
individuals who received invitations but did not
participate would not be considered part of your
sample; rather, they are part of what is often
called the sampling frame. Your sampling frame
is the group of individuals who could possibly be
in your study, which in the above example would
be the 200 individuals on the e-mail listserv.
Population
your research question asks if there is an association
between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction in
nurses. In this case, your population might be nurses in the
United States. However, if the scope of your study is more
narrow (e.g., if your study deals with a local problem or a
specific specialty/industry), then your population would be
more specific, such as “nurses in the state of Florida” or
“licensed practical nurses in the United States.”
Importantly, your population should only include people to
whom your results will apply. For example, if you do not
have good reason to believe that your results will apply to
all nurses in the United States, then your population will
need to be more specific. If you are stuck on defining your
population, think about how you would fill in the blank in
the following sentence: “The results of my study will apply
to _____.” Your answer will help determine how you define
your population.
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