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In the remaining chapters we shall mainly be concerned with statistical inference which will cover methods of drawing conclusions from sample data about the larger populations from which the samples are drawn. Although we have met the words’ sample’ and ‘population’ in earlier chapters they were not defined. Here are the definitions
We should extend our views far beyond the narrow bounds of a parish, we should include large groups of mankind.
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Rees, D.G. (1989). Samples and populations. In: Essential Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7260-6_8
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