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J. S. Allison; L. Santana; I. J. H. Visagie – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Given sample data, how do you calculate the value of a parameter? While this question is impossible to answer, it is frequently encountered in statistics classes when students are introduced to the distinction between a sample and a population (or between a statistic and a parameter). It is not uncommon for teachers of statistics to also confuse…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Computation, Sampling