Question

A random sample of 1000 people who signed a card saying they intend to quit smoking were contacted 9 months later. Turned out that 210 (21%) of the sampled individuals had not smoked in the past 6 months. What is the population, parameter, sample and statistic?

Answer 1

Population is the total number of people that fall into the description of those that the research concerns.

In this case, Population is: Everyone who signed a card saying that they intend to quit smoking.

Sample. This is a subset of the population that the research is based on.

Sample = 1,000 people surveyed.

Parameter and Statistic are both descriptive measures but parameter is for the population and statistic is for the sample.

Parameter = Percentage of total population who have not smoked in 6 months.

Statistic = 21% of sample who have not smoked in 3 months.