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One of the major tasks of statistics is to obtain information about populations. The set of all elements that are of interest for a statistical analysis is called a population. The population must be defined precisely and comprehensively so that one can immediately determine whether an element belongs to it or not.
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Härdle, W.K., Klinke, S., Röonz, B. (2015). Sampling Theory. In: Introduction to Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17704-5_7
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