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Course: AP??/College Statistics?>?Unit 6
Lesson 1: Introduction to planning a study- Identifying a sample and population
- Identify the population and sample
- Generalizability of survey results example
- Generalizability of results
- Types of studies
- Worked example identifying observational study
- Invalid conclusions from studies example
- Types of studies
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Generalizability of results
Problem
First-year students at a certain large university are required to live on campus in of the available residence halls. After their first year, students have the option to live away from campus, but many choose to continue living in the residence halls. Estella oversees of these residence halls. Her department surveyed a large simple random sample of first-year students who live in those residence halls about their overall satisfaction with campus living.
Estella can safely generalize the results of the survey to which population?