I had this question on a Quiz in my Intro to Stats class:
As you can see, my gut reaction was all the women in this country were the population, and that the 12,075 women surveyed were the sample. It turns out C and D were the correct responses, and I am having a really hard time understanding why.
Aren't the immunization statuses the parameter/statistics? It seems like C and D lump the parameter in with the population, and the statistics in with the sample. What am I missing here? There were 16 questions of this sort and this is the only one I missed, so I really want to address the gap in my reasoning. This was the explanation given, but I don't quite understand it and haven't seen it explained that way in the text:
In another problem we were told the emissions of a new car model were being measured and asked what the population was, and the correct answer was all of the cars of that new model. So why in that case was it not lumping in emissions with the cars for the population?
Apologies if my question is unclear, I'm having a hard time articulating it.
As you can see, my gut reaction was all the women in this country were the population, and that the 12,075 women surveyed were the sample. It turns out C and D were the correct responses, and I am having a really hard time understanding why.
Aren't the immunization statuses the parameter/statistics? It seems like C and D lump the parameter in with the population, and the statistics in with the sample. What am I missing here? There were 16 questions of this sort and this is the only one I missed, so I really want to address the gap in my reasoning. This was the explanation given, but I don't quite understand it and haven't seen it explained that way in the text:
In another problem we were told the emissions of a new car model were being measured and asked what the population was, and the correct answer was all of the cars of that new model. So why in that case was it not lumping in emissions with the cars for the population?
Apologies if my question is unclear, I'm having a hard time articulating it.