Question

A questionnaire was sent to 34,000 randomly chosen individuals living in USA asking about their current and past smoking habits. For those who answered the questionnaire, they are tracked in the next 10 year for the death rate. Their data was pulled from the health record database so that if they died, the death is recorded with the diagnosis of the cause of the death. The death rates due to heart disease among the smokers and nonsmokers are then compared to see if smoking causes heart disease. What is the targeted population

Answer 1

Answer: The targeted population is the population of the human being from which the sampling will be done.

Explanation:

The target population is the group of individuals where a particular sample will be drawn. It should be noted that sample simply means the people who are going to take part in a particular investigation.

The targeted population is the population of the human being from which the sampling will be done. Since the objective of the experiment is to link effect of smoking and heart disease, human being will be the targeted population.