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A parameter is a numerical measurement of a population; a statistic is a numerical measurement of a sample.

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Does a parameter describe a population or a sample?

A parameter describes a population. A statistic describes a sample.


What sample statistic is used to estimate a population parameter?

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Is a parameter a measurable characteristic of a sample?

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Is this considered a parameter or statistic One of the greatest baseball hitters of all time has a career batting average of 0.366?

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What is the difference a parameter and a statistic?

A parameter is a number describing something about a whole population. eg population mean or mode. A statistic is something that describes a sample (eg sample mean)and is used as an estimator for a population parameter. (because samples should represent populations!)


What is the difference between a parameter and a statistic?

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Can a sample statistic ever be larger than the population parameter?

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What is usually not possible to compute one relies on a sample statistic?

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Is this a parameter or statistic a survey of 42 out of one hundreds in a dinning hall showed that 17 enjoyed their meal?

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What is the single parameter in the binomial distribution and what sample statistic would be used to estimate it?

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What is the difference between statistics and parameters?

Parameter is any attribute Statistic are the measured values of a parameter. A statistic is a sample value such as the average height of a group of students. A parameter is a functional constant such as the mean of a normal distribution. Statistics are often used to estimate parameters. For instance, a sample average is an estimate of the mean.