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Fitting a model too closely to sample data, resulting in a model that does not accurately reflect the population is termed as Group of answer choices approximation. hypothesizing. overfitting. postulating.

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Approximation

Explanation:

Approximation in statistics describes many results which are only approximate; i.e they are similar but not equal/same as the actual result.

This summarizes a complex issue into a less complicated one.

It uses a sufficient sample size mostly a smaller sample size that will give a sufficient closeness of the two distribution.

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