What Is Taphonomy

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What is taphonomy?

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Definitions:

Point Estimate

A single value estimate of a parameter that best describes an aspect of a population based on sample data.

True Proportion

The actual ratio of individuals or items within a specified category to the total population, often used in statistical analysis to represent an exact value.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic based on all possible random samples that can be drawn from a given population.

Sample Means

The average values derived from samples, considered as estimations of the population mean, crucial in the field of inferential statistics.