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Much of what we do in this course consists of
- Taking a random sample (or samples) from a population (or populations),
- Calculating a statistic (or statistics),
- Making inferences about parameters of the whole population from
the corresponding statistics calculated from the samples.
In particular, we consider the following situations:
Jan Lethen
Wed Nov 13 16:20:46 CST 1996