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A statistic is a characteristic of a sample while a parameter is usually an unknown population parameter?

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The answer is: true

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This should be Correct-

Answer:

True

Explanation:

A statistic is a characteristic of a sample, a portion of the target population. A parameter is a fixed, unknown numerical value, while the statistic is a known number and a variable which depends on the portion of the population.

Parameter Definition: a quantity or statistical measure that, for a given population, is fixed and that is used as the value of a variable in some general distribution or frequency function to make it descriptive of that.

Population: The mean and variance of a population are population parameters.

Statistic Definiton: A statistic or sample statistic is any quantity computed from values in a sample that is used for a statistical purpose. Statistical purposes include estimating a population parameter, describing a sample, or evaluating a hypothesis. The average of sample values is a statistic.

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