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Identifying Parameters and Statistics. Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population. Statistics are numbers that summarize data from a sample, i.e. some subset of the entire population. Problems (1) through (6) below each present a statistical study*. For each study, identify both the parameter and the statistic in the study. 1) A researcher wants to estimate the average height of women aged 20 years or older. From a simple random sample of 45 women, the researcher obtains a sample mean height of 63.9 inches.
A parameter is an entity that is used to connect or unify two or more variables of an equation. The parameters may or may not have the same dimensions as the variables. Consider the equation x2+y2=1. In this equation, x and y are variables.