Content description VCMSP297

Mathematics / Level 8 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Content description

Distinguish between a population and a sample and investigate techniques for collecting data, including census, sampling and observation

Elaborations

identifying situations where data can be collected by census and those where a sample is appropriate
investigating the differences between convenience, judgemental and simple random sampling from a population

Code

VCMSP297

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