A population is the whole set of items from which a data sample can be drawn; so a sample is only a portion of the population data. Features of a sample are described by statistics. Statistical methods enable us to arrange, analyse and interpret the sample data obtained from a population. We gather sample data when it is impractical to analyse the population data as a smaller sample often allows us to gain a better understanding of the population without doing too much work or wasting precious time. Show
Measures of Central TendencyWe make inferences about a population from a sample set of observed values by finding the mean, median and mode. The mean, median and mode are collectively known as measures of central tendency.
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