The name Levant States was used to refer to the French mandate over Syria and Lebanon after World War I. This is probably the reason why the term Levant has come to be used synonymously with Syria-Palestine. Some scholars misunderstood the term thinking that it derives from the name of Lebanon.
The difference between a sample mean and the population mean is called: a. nonresponse error. b. selection bias. c. sampling error. d. nonsampling error. ANSWER: c 35.
In statistics the term population has a slightly different meaning from the one given to it in ordinary speech. It need not refer only to people or to animate creatures - the population of Britain, for instance or the dog population of London.