Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video introduces the notion of random sampling of a population to determine its statistics. For example, we may estimate the population mean and variance using the sample mean and variance, and we can also quantify the uncertainty in these estimates, depending on the sample size.

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
04:20 Defining Population Mean & Variance
06:47 Defining Sample Statistics
09:00 Simple Random Sampling
12:30 Code Demo: Population Sampling
22:31 Outro