Glossary. Calcitonin is a hormone known to participate in calcium and phosphorus metabolism. In mammals, the major source of calcitonin is from the parafollicular or C cells in the thyroid gland, but it is also synthesized in a wide variety of other tissues, including the lung and intestinal tract.
Statistics and Probability Dictionary. Select a term from the dropdown text box. The online statistics glossary will display a definition, plus links to other related web pages. Sample Space. A sample space is a set of elements that represents all possible outcomes of a statistical experiment .
Sampling Distributions of Sample Statistics. Two common statistics are the sample proportion, \(\hat{p}\) (âp-hatâ), and the sample mean, \(\bar{x}\) (âx-barâ). Sample statistics are random variables because they vary from sample to sample. As a result, sample statistics also have a distribution called the sampling distribution.