Sampling Procedure

Population: “The term “population” is used in statistics to represent all possible measurements or outcomes that are of interest to us in a particular study.”   The following are the examples for small to great sized populations

Khayyam ESL students;

Trees in North America;

people who consume olive oil

Sample: “The term “sample” refers to a portion of the population that is representative of the population from which it was selected.“      The following are the examples for samples from the same populations above:

40 Khayyam ESL students chosen randomly;

8463 trees randomly selected in North America;

1% of the oil consuming population per country

Sampling