Death Rates

question 6

Multiple Choice

Death rates

• A) indicate how long a typical person in a society is likely to live
• B) are inversely related to the number of deaths that occurred in a specific society
• C) reflect the number of people in a specific group who die during a particular time period
• D) all of these
• E) none of these

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Definitions:

Population Parameter

A characteristic or measure that describes an aspect of an entire population, such as mean or standard deviation.

Sampling Distribution

A distribution showing the chances of different outcomes for a statistic, which is generated from a significant amount of samples from a certain population.

Sample Size

The number of individuals or observations used in a sample to estimate characteristics of an entire population.

Point Estimate

A single value given as an estimate of a population parameter that is unknown.