Distinguishing Parameter and Statistics
Distinguishing Parameter and Statistics
PARAMETER AND
STATISTIC
REVIEW
POPULATION OR SAMPLE
1. Total number of students in Laguna Senior
High School.
2. A group of 30 patients in a hospital
undergoing treatement for COVID.
3. The ages of all vendors in Plaza.
4. The top 50 of richest people in the
Philippines.
5. The list of all countries in the world.
PARAMETER STATISTIC
• The measurement or • The measurement or
quantity that describes quantity that describes
the POPULATION. the SAMPLE.
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1. COMPUTE THE POPULATION MEAN
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2. COMPUTE THE POPULATION VARIANCE
AND POPULATION STANDARD DEVIATION
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STATISTIC
From the previous data of a population, suppose
that we randomly select only 5 data out of the total
10 data in the population. Compute the sample
mean, sample variance and sample standard
deviation.
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1. COMPUTE THE SAMPLE MEAN
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2. COMPUTE THE SAMPLE VARIANCE AND
SAMPLE STANDARD DEVIATION
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WHERE:
x= given data
x̄= the sample mean
n= number of elements in the sample
TEST YOURSELF
A. Parameter
The following are the grades of students in their Math subject;
94, 85, 88, 79, 78, 75, 89, 91, 84 and 77.
1. Compute the population mean.
2. Compute the population variance.
3. Compute the population standard deviation.
B. Statistics
The following are the five(5) grades of the students above that
are randomly selected; 94, 85, 78, 75, and 91 .
1. Compute the sample mean.
2. Compute the sample variance.
3. Compute the sample standard deviation.