Sample statistics and population parameters A researcher is interested in knowing the average height of the men in a village. To the researcher, the population of interest is the - in the village, the relevant population data are the in the village, and the population parameter of interest is the There are 780 men in the village, and the sum of their heights is 4,617.6 feet. Their average height is feet. Instead of measuring the heights of all the village men, the researcher measured the heights of 13 village men and calculated the average to estimate the average height of all the village men. The sample for his estimation is , the relevant sample data are the , and the sample statistic is the If the sum of the heights of the 13 village men is 79.3 feet, their average height is feet.
