Sometimes, there are too much of the thing you are testing, so it is a lot easier to just take a sample.
For example, if there were twelve million weeds growing on a field and you wanted to see how many of them were dandelions, it would take forever to count all the dandelions on that field. It is more practical just to take a small sample.
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a summary measure that is computed to describe a characteristic of an entire population is called:
The population mean is the mean value of the entire population. Contrast this with sample mean, which is the mean value of a sample of the population.
In reality, a statistician never really has ALL the data. The data is instead taken from a sample of the whole population. If this sample is representative of the entire population, then any statistics based on the sample should be good estimates of the whole but probably not a perfect match. Of course the more data you get from the whole population the better the estimate, but it will always be an estimate unless you census the enitire population.
Statistics: Survey of an entire population, as opposed to a sample survey.
Senators are the members of the House that are chosen for a state's entire population. Representatives are chosen to represent a portion of their state.
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system testing
The use of a small number of people to represent a greater population is called sampling. The sample can be randomly chosen so that it is a reliable reflection of most of the population.
The experimental group is the entire population of people in a testing program. The control group is a subset of that unit. The control group would be given a sugar pill instead of the drug being tested. This is done without even some of the experimenters knowing who is who.
The entire population.
The entire group that the researcher is interested in is called the population or the target population.
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Jehovah's Witnesses. They use the entire Bible.
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By taking a sample of the entire population.