Suppose a 12 years old asked you to explain difference between a sample and a population, hot would you explain it to him/her. How might you explain why you would want to take a sample, rather that surveying every member of the population
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Suppose a 12 years old asked you to explain difference between a sample and a population, hot would you explain it to him/her. How might you explain why you would want to take a sample, rather that surveying every member of the population
The population is all the subjects of a statistical study while the sample is a small constituent group from a population.
Surveying the entire population may be cumbersome and costly hence we survey a sample and make decisions about the population based on the information from the sample.