If a Population Is Very Large, It May Be Better

question 69

True/False

If a population is very large, it may be better to select a sample from the population than to try to obtain a census in an effort to reduce measurement error.

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Definitions:

NDP Candidate

A person nominated to represent the New Democratic Party in an electoral contest.

Confidence Interval

This statistical metric signifies the estimated range of values within which a population parameter falls, presented with a certain degree of confidence, showing the precision of an estimate.

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A public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that describes the distribution of sampling means around the population mean, indicating the precision of the sample mean estimate.