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.
The Difference in Calculation: Population vs. Sample Variance. There is only one little difference in the calculation of variance and it is at the very end of it. For both population and sample variance, I calculate the mean, then the deviations from the mean, and then I square all the deviations. I sum all the squared deviations up.