Swelling of the ankle and feet is relatively frequent symptom in most people. In itself it does not represent a disease but rather the symptom of an underlying disease. 1  Causes of swollen ankles and feet are numerous including:  Dependent swelling (edema)
Report Abuse. POPULATION PARAMETER(p) is a value used to represent a certain QUANTIFIABLE characteristic of a population. This is like the mean or variance of a population and often these values are unknown, and are estimated using sample data.
A parameter is a number that describes the population. Usually its value is unknown. A statistic is a number that can be computed from the. sample data without making use of any unknown. parameters. In practice, we often use a statistic to estimate an. unknown parameter.