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Collecting and Measuring Data

Defining a population

Defining a population

In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or societal problem, it is necessary to begin with a population or process to be studied. Populations can be diverse topics such as "all persons living in a country" or "all stamps produced in the year 1943".

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