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1) statistic
a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.
2) Sampling
The sampling distribution of a statistic is the distribution of
that statistic, considered as a random variable, when derived from
a random sample of size . It may be considered as the distribution
of the statistic for all possible samples from the same population
of a given sample size.
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