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Sampling Schemes and Inferences from Samples

Much of what we do in this course consists of

  1. Taking a random sample (or samples) from a population (or populations),
  2. Calculating a statistic (or statistics),
  3. 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