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Identifying Parameters and Statistics. Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population. Statistics are numbers that summarize data from a sample, i.e. some subset of the entire population. Problems (1) through (6) below each present a statistical study*. For each study, identify both the parameter and the statistic in the study. 1) A researcher wants to estimate the average height of women aged 20 years or older. From a simple random sample of 45 women, the researcher obtains a sample mean height of 63.9 inches.
Descriptive measures of a sample are statistics. For example, a sample mean is a statistic and a population mean is a parameter. The sample mean is usually denoted by \(\bar{y}\): where n is the sample size and yi are the measurements.