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Statistics often requires one to make estimates of some measure (variable) about a set of units. The total number of such units is the population size.

Note that population, in this context, need not refer to people. If the study is about household expenditure on food (in some area), then the population is all households and the population size is the number of households (in that area). If the study is about diversity of insects in a field, the population may be all 1-metre squares in the field, and the size of the population will be the number of such plots - which will equal the area of the field.

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Leilani Cremin

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