34.5 Seeing the Whole from a Sample: An Introduction to Statistical Inference
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34.5.1 Estimating the Population from a Sample
Core idea
Taste one spoonful to judge the whole pot; the sample mean x̄ is used to estimate the population mean μ
Module goal. Understand why a small sample can speak for a large population, build the ideas of estimation and sampling variability, and prepare the ground for correlation and testing
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