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.
Sample: A sample is a portion of a population selected for further analysis. How samples are obtained or types of sampling will be studied in lesson 7. Most any of the examples above for population could serve as a sample for the next higher level data set. The plural of statistic just above is another basic meaning of statistics. Assume there are 8 students in a particular statistics class, with 1 student being male. Since 1 is 12.5% of 8, we can say 13% are male. The 13% represents a parameter (not a statistic) of the class because it is based on the entire population.