You are interested in learning about the reading habits of the residents of Fairmont. To develop a sample, you select 13 of the city's blocks and interview everyone on those blocks. After collecting the data, you fi nd that 45% of those surveyed read more than one book a month. After some analysis, you conclude that about 40-50% the population of Fairmont reads more than one book a month. a) What is the population? b) What sampling technique has been employed? c) Is the 45% number a parameter or statistic?
You are interested in learning about the reading habits of the residents of Fairmont. To develop a sample, you select 13 of the city's blocks and interview everyone on those blocks. After collecting the data, you fi nd that 45% of those surveyed read more than one book a month. After some analysis, you conclude that about 40-50% the population of Fairmont reads more than one book a month.
a) What is the population?
b) What sampling technique has been employed?
c) Is the 45% number a parameter or statistic?
d) Based on the given information, is there any bias in the survey method? Explain.
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Population is the whole set of people or observation are under study or experiment. Where sample is the subpart of population, which resemble la characteristic of the population. The parameter are used to measure the unknown value of the population, whereas statistic are used to measure the unknown value of the sample.
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