Statistics and Probability Glossary
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Sample
In statistics, a sample refers to a subset
of a population.
Often, it is necessary to use samples for research, because it is impractical to
study the whole population. For example, suppose we wanted to know the average
height of 12-year-old American boys. We could not measure all of the
12-year-old boys in America, but we could measure a sample of boys.
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