Population vs Sample & Parameter vs Statistic & Biased vs Unbiased in Statistics
We will cover Population and Sample, Parameter and Statistic, Population Mean and Sample Mean, Biased and Unbiased
Introduction
In this blog, you will see about these topics in Statistics
- Population & Sample
- Parameter & Statistic
- Population Mean & Sample Mean
- Biased & Unbiased Estimator
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Population & Sample
Population : The Population is the Entire group that you are taking for analysis or prediction.
Sample : Sample is the Subset of the Population(i.e. Taking random samples from the population). The size of the sample is always less than the total size of the population.
Let’s take a Scenario to describe the Population and Sample to make more clarity.
You are doing a Voting Prediction to analyze/predict which party will get majority of vote and won the Election.
So, your next step is to collect the data from the people that they voted for which party. Let’s consider India, there are above 130 Crore people, you can’t get all the people opinions that they voted.
Due to constraints of resources, time, and accessibility computing data from a population is nearly impossible, hence a sample is used. As an analogy, you can think of your sample as an aquarium and your population as the ocean. Your sample is small portion of a vaster ocean that you are attempting to understand.
Coming back to the Scenario, you randomly select some people and take their opinions then you will do the analysis/prediction.
Note: You have to take the people opinions randomly. Because, If you collect information from one State/district for the Entire Indian People voting, your prediction/analysis goes wrong, because the data would get biased. We will see “Bias & Unbiased” in the below part
While taking the samples from the population, there are different types. . .
Sampling with and Without Replacement: Let’s start with an example, you have one basket contains 5 Red Balls and 4 Blue Balls. In the first event, you are taking a sample of 3 Red Balls and 2 Blue Balls and Calculating their probability.
- If you put the sample of 3 Red Balls and 2 Blue Balls back into the basket is referred as Sampling With Replacement.
- If you didn’t put the sample back into the basket and calculation probability for the next event, this is referred as Sampling Without Replacement.
Parameter & Statistic
Parameters
Calculating Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation on Population Data known to be a Population parameters. The population mean and population standard deviation are represented by the Greek letters µ and σ respectively. A parameter is a characteristic of a population.
Statistic
Calculating Mean(x̅), Variance and Standard Deviation on Sample Data known to be a Sample statistic. A statistic is a characteristic of a sample.
If anyone ask and calculate statistic means, you have to calculate x̅, s2 ( S Square) and S.
Population Mean & Sample Mean
Population Mean
Mean gives the average of the data. If you calculate mean for population data is known as Population Mean. Population mean is a fixed one. . . it doesn’t vary.
Sample Mean
Calculation of mean using Sample data is known as Sample Mean. Sample mean vary as our data size/sample size increases. . .
Biased & Unbiased Estimator
Biased
If your Population Parameter and Sample Statistic is not equal, then it is called as Biased. Usually Bias somewhat tilt towards one sided of the data rather than random.
Unbiased
If your Population Parameter and Sample Statistic is equal, then it is called as Unbiased
Conclusion
I hope this article will help you to know about Population, Sample, Parameter and Statistic, Population Mean, Sample Mean, Biased and Unbiased Estimator.
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