Seems like such simple subject but it can be very confusing to a lot of students, especially me. Thank you for doing such good job explaining and highlighting the differences between a statistic and parameter
How is the Miami one a parameter? Miami homes do not represent all homes in Florida or the US. Still confused. Also, a US population survey is not representative of the whole world. Where is the real difference then?
To answer these kinds of questions, you have to think about what is being calculated using the data. The average sale price for homes being sold at auction last year is a parameter for the population of interest: sale prices for homes sold at auction last year in Miami. This is not explicitly stated in the problem, but it is implied. If your interest as a researcher extended beyond last year and beyond homes sold at auction in Miami, you would certainly have selected a random sample that consisted of different sorts of sales from a wider time horizon. In this case, they took all of those home sales, so the average obtained from the data is a parameter. Of course, if your population of interest was the sale prices of all homes sold in Miami last year or in the nation or ... then the average would only be a statistic (and not a very representative one at that).
Since the zoo is only interested in its animals and the animals in the zoo are not meant to be a representative sample of the world’s population of animals, the 8% is a parameter. If someone randomly sampled 843 animals in a rain forest and found 8% were nocturnal, then I’d say 8% was a statistic because the sample was intended to give us an idea of the population of animals living in the rain forest. The sample is not the entire set of animals in the forest.
Seems like such simple subject but it can be very confusing to a lot of students, especially me. Thank you for doing such good job explaining and highlighting the differences between a statistic and parameter
So well explained 👏 I got 100% on my Homework. Thank you for the video!
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Awesome way of explaining!!! I can’t wait to use your technique this semester! Thank you so much!
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very straightforward break down. Good stuff.
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Thank you for breaking it down the way you did, you are awesome. My second semester and I get stuck in statistics smh.
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Excelent. Came here after my class and I get what a parameter is now.
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How is the Miami one a parameter? Miami homes do not represent all homes in Florida or the US. Still confused.
Also, a US population survey is not representative of the whole world. Where is the real difference then?
To answer these kinds of questions, you have to think about what is being calculated using the data. The average sale price for homes being sold at auction last year is a parameter for the population of interest: sale prices for homes sold at auction last year in Miami. This is not explicitly stated in the problem, but it is implied. If your interest as a researcher extended beyond last year and beyond homes sold at auction in Miami, you would certainly have selected a random sample that consisted of different sorts of sales from a wider time horizon. In this case, they took all of those home sales, so the average obtained from the data is a parameter. Of course, if your population of interest was the sale prices of all homes sold in Miami last year or in the nation or ... then the average would only be a statistic (and not a very representative one at that).
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Certain zoo found that 8% of its 843 animals were nocturnal. is 8% a parameter or a statistics? I am so confused.
Since the zoo is only interested in its animals and the animals in the zoo are not meant to be a representative sample of the world’s population of animals, the 8% is a parameter. If someone randomly sampled 843 animals in a rain forest and found 8% were nocturnal, then I’d say 8% was a statistic because the sample was intended to give us an idea of the population of animals living in the rain forest. The sample is not the entire set of animals in the forest.
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