Assignment

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Statistics
By: Ellana Mari S. Corral
 I. Population Parameters

- According to the definition of an online dictionary, it is a quantity or statistical

measure that, for a given population, is fixed and that is used as the value of a
variable in some general distribution or frequency function to make it descriptive
of that population.

Namely the mean and variance of a population are an example of population

parameters.

Point estimate of a population parameter is a single value of a statistic. For

example, the sample mean x is a point estimate of the population mean .
Similarly, the sample proportion p is a point estimate of the population proportion
P. Interval estimate.

Ex. Suppose that you want to find out the average weight of all
players on the football team at Landers College. You are able to select ten
players at random and weigh them. The mean weight of the sample of players
is 198, so that number is your point estimate. Assume that the population
standard deviation is = 11.50.

Interval estimation is the use of sample data to calculate an interval of plausible

values of an unknown population parameter; this is in contrast to point estimation
,which gives a single value.

Ex. In a college of 25,000 students, the administration would like to know

for what proportion of students both parents had completed college. A sample
of 350 students was drawn at random and in that sample, 276 of the students
said that both their parents had completed college.

II. Probability and Non-Probability Sample

1. Probability sample is a sample selected by a method based on the theory of

probability (random process), that is, by a method involving knowledge of the
likelihood of any unit being selected.

2. Non-probability sampling is a sampling technique where the samples are

gathered in a process that does not give all the individuals in the population
equal chances of being selected.