Swelling of the ankle and feet is relatively frequent symptom in most people. In itself it does not represent a disease but rather the symptom of an underlying disease. 1  Causes of swollen ankles and feet are numerous including:  Dependent swelling (edema)
Report Abuse. POPULATION PARAMETER(p) is a value used to represent a certain QUANTIFIABLE characteristic of a population. This is like the mean or variance of a population and often these values are unknown, and are estimated using sample data.
Definition & Formula for Population Variance. Population variance is a fancy term for how much a specific measurement is expected to vary in a given population. If the measurement varies widely from individual to individual, it will have a high variance, whereas if the measurement only varies by a small amount, it will have a small variance.