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.
Population Ecology. A population is a group of individuals belonging to the same species and living in the same geographic area at a given time. They use the same natural resources and are affected by similar environmental factors. Population ecology examines the factors affecting population density and distribution. Population density is the number of individuals in a given area or volume. Population distribution is how spread out the individuals are in that area. Basically it is how populations change over time.