Parameters vs Statistics
Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population.
Statistics are numbers that summarize data from a sample, i.e. some subset of the entire population.
Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population.
Statistics are numbers that summarize data from a sample, i.e. some subset of the entire population.
in question 1 on the quiz, I thought it was statistic because the population of NY was a sample and then the average age was statistic…. I get that we got parameter but how.
But the POPULATION of New York is not a sample. It is a population. Therefore, any characteristics that we measure from this population is a parameter.
You may be thinking that New York voters do not make up the entire population of the USA, but we are not focusing on all of the USA here… Only a very specific group: voters in NY. If we include all of the people that fit this description, then it is a population.