Definition:Population Parameter
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Definition
A population parameter is a numerical description of a population.
Also known as
A population parameter can be called just a parameter if it is not necessary to emphasize the distinction between a population parameter and a (sample) statistic.
Sources
- 2011: Charles Henry Brase and Corrinne Pellillo Brase: Understandable Statistics (10th ed.): $\S 1.1$
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): parameter (in statistics)