SAMPLE SURVEYS PART 1

The entire group of individuals or instances about whom we hope to learn.

• SAMPLE

• POPULATION

• AMERICA

• CLASS

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A (representative) subset of a population, examined in hope of learning about the

population

• TEXAS

• POPULATION

• SAMPLE

• GROUP

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A study that asks questions of a sample drawn from some population in the hope of learning

something about the entire population. Polls taken to assess voter preferences are

common sample surveys

• ELECTION

• SAMPLE SURVEY

• CENSUS

• STATISTIC

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Any systematic failure of a sampling method to represent its population

• TYPO

• CENSUS

• STATISTIC

• BIAS

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The best defense against bias, in which each individual is given a fair, random chance of selection.

• POPULATION

• SAMPLE

• RANDOMIZATION

• RAFFLE

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The number of individuals in a sample.

• SAMPLE SURVEY

• SAMPLE NUMBER

• SAMPLE GROUP

• SAMPLE SIZE

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A sample that consists of the entire population

• WORLD

• GROUP

• CENSUS

• SURVEY

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A numerically valued attribute of a model for a population. We rarely expect to know the true value of it.

• POPULATION PARAMETER

• SAMPLE STATISTIC

• CENSUS

• BIAS

Values calculated for sampled data. Those that correspond to, and thus estimate, a population parameter

• POPULATION PARAMETER

• REPRESENTATIVE

• SAMPLE STATISTIC

• SAMPLE SIZE

A sample is said to be _______________ if the statistics computed from it accurately reflect the corresponding population parameters

• POPULATION

• PARAMETER

• REPRESENTATIVE

• RANDOM

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