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.
- The sum of all the values of the variable (in the data set), divided by the number of values / observations. (Another way of saying it: add up all the observations and divide by the number of observations) - Population mean (mew) = a parameter. - Sample mean (x-bar) = a statistic.