The Process of Selecting Representative Elements from a Population Is

question 127

Multiple Choice

The process of selecting representative elements from a population is referred to as

• A)hypothesis generation.
• B)sampling.
• C)information gathering.
• D)statistical inference.
• E)probability extrapolation.

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