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Maybe someday she'll explain to you that errors in sample estimates depend only on sample size and not population size.
by bigbillheck 4y ago
Maybe someday she'll explain to you that errors in sample estimates depend only on sample size and not population size.
- tmaly 4y agoI think the bigger error is still in drawing conclusions from a small sample size.
- bigbillheck 4y agoYou're going to have decently sized error bars from a n=100 sample but it doesn't matter if it was 10% of a population of 1000 or 0.001% of a population of 10000000, the quality of the estimate is just as good.