There are two equivalent ways of defining a simple random sample from a larger population. One definition is that every member of the population has the same probability of being included in the sample. The second is that, if you generate all possible samples of the given size from the population, then each such sample has the same probability of being selected for use.
Samples
If repeated samples are taken from a population, then they will not have the same mean each time. The mean itself will have some distribution. This will have the same mean as the population mean and the standard deviation of this statistic is the standard deviation of the mean.
different samples of respondents from the population complete the survey over a time period
There are 324,632 possible samples.
Data from random samples will not always include the same values. Values are chosen randomly and they may or may not be the same. So means will vary among random samples.
Will a sample descriptive statistics accurately estimate the underlying population's parameters?
The "average" of the population of samples is the same as their "mean".
Yes you can.
A population of animals is a group of animals of the same kind, same species, have the same characteristics, living in the same habitat. For example, a population of frogs at a pond. A population of squirrels in a tree.
they must be correct and they must be the right kind of sample
A sampling variability is the tendency of the same statistic computed from a number of random samples drawn from the same population to differ.
There are two equivalent ways of defining a simple random sample from a larger population. One definition is that every member of the population has the same probability of being included in the sample. The second is that, if you generate all possible samples of the given size from the population, then each such sample has the same probability of being selected for use.
Provided the samples are independent, the Central Limit Theorem will ensure that the sample means will be distributed approximately normally with mean equal to the population mean.
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Samples
It is the sampling distribution of that variable.