Statistics review 2: Samples and populations
1 Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Bristol, UK
2 Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Critical Care 2002, 6:143-148 doi:10.1186/cc1473
Published: 7 February 2002Abstract
The previous review in this series introduced the notion of data description and outlined some of the more common summary measures used to describe a dataset. However, a dataset is typically only of interest for the information it provides regarding the population from which it was drawn. The present review focuses on estimation of population values from a sample.