statistical population

  • 1Statistical population — In statistics, a statistical population is a set of entities concerning which statistical inferences are to be drawn, often based on a random sample taken from the population. For example, if we were interested in generalizations about crows,… …

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  • 2Statistical assumption — Statistical assumptions are general assumptions about statistical populations.Statistics, like all mathematical disciplines, does not generate valid conclusions from nothing. In order to generate interesting conclusions about real statistical… …

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  • 3Population (disambiguation) — Population may refer to: *Population (human populations) **List of countries by population *Population biology, the biological study of animal populations *Statistical population *Metallicity, star populations *Population (album), an album by The …

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  • 4Population decline — can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans. It is a term usually used to describe any great reduction in a human population.[1] It can be used to refer to long term demographic… …

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  • 5Statistical survey — Statistical surveys are used to collect quantitative information about items in a population. Surveys of human populations and institutions are common in political polling and government, health, social science and marketing research. A survey… …

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  • 6Statistical discrimination — is an economic theory of inequality based on group stereotypes. In its simplest version, individuals are discriminated against because stereotypes are held against the groups they are associated with. This type of preferential treatment is… …

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  • 7Population modeling — is an application of statistical models to the study of changes in populations.Models allow us to better understand how complex interactions and processes work. Modeling of dynamic interactions in nature can provide a manageable way of… …

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  • 8Statistical probability — is a term sometimes used informally as a synonym for frequency probability, which identifies probability with relative frequency over a long series of events or the proportion of an event in a large population.There are several other… …

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  • 9population — Statistical term denoting all the objects, events, or subjects in a particular class. Cf.:sample. [L. populus, a people, nation] * * * pop·u·la·tion .päp yə lā shən n 1) the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region 2 a) a body …

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  • 10POPULATION — THE JEWISH POPULATION Growth by Aliyah In 1882 the Jewish population of Ereẓ Israel numbered some 24,000, roughly 5% of the total, and about 0.3% of the world Jewish population. Since then there has been an almost continuous flow of aliyah, which …

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