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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.
A statistic used to estimate a population parameter is unbiased if the mean of the sampling distribution of the statistic is equal to the true value of the parameter being estimated. Note that. The mean of the sample means (4) is equal to m, the mean of the population P.