What is the difference between Population and sample?

Answer 1

Population and SamplePopulation is the area in which you are trying to get information from. Sample is a section of your population that you are actually going to survey. It is important to have a sample that will represent your entire population in order to minimize biases. For example:

You want in know how American citizens feel about the war in Iraq. Your population: The United States Your sample: 500 citizens selected randomly from each state.

Since the answers all over the US would greatly vary, it is important to have everyone in the population represented in your sample. This is usually done through random sampling, which assumes no biases seeing as the subjects were selected at random.

Answer 2

A population is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about. A sample is the specific group that you will collect data from. The size of the sample is always less than the total size of the population.

Answer 3

'Population; is the total of all the data to be considered. 'Sample' is a small part of the data, collected in order to make an estimate for the whole population.

NB Some populations are so large or remote , it is impossible to collect all ther data.

Answer 4

A population is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about. A sample is the specific group that you will collect data from. The size of the sample is always less than the total size of the population. In research, a population doesn't always refer to

people

Answer 5

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The population is the number of people in a particular place. example of how many people are living in Pakistan.

The sample is a subset of the population it is in a smaller number and is chosen randomly.

Answer 6

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population contain all elemnt of data .population is entair group of elements which we need.

sample contains one or more observation .sample is lessthen population .

Answer 7

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Population: population is an entire group from which sample is drawn.population include all individuals,all world institutions.

Sample: sample is a substance or a part of poulation.

for example: collect data of hospitals of Faislabad form all the hospitals in pakistan

Answer 8

Name Shanza Sadiq

Roll no 18-303.

Answer. Population: population is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about. It contains all members of a specificed group. The population is a complete set. The size of population is always large .

Sample:

Sample is a specific group that you will collect data from. It is a subset that represents the entire population. The sample is a subset of population. The size of sample is always less that the population.

Answer 9

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Sample:

It is the subset of large population. When population is too large we drawn sample from it.

Population:

Population is the large number of data and we draw sample from it. Basically it is the entire pool.

For example:

Pass students of css in Pakistan.

Answer 10

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Population:- population is the total number of people and things which we studied. It refer to an entire group of people,objects which is being studied

For example

We studied all school in Pakistan

Sample:- Sample is the subset of population which is also being studied. it is a small part taken from population to studied.

For example we take any province and then study the school of that province as a sample