One morning a local affiliate of national public radio show had an episode about parks in Idaho. During the show they asked listeners to respond to a poll and answer whether they had been camping in an Idaho park in the last year. 1287 responded, and 1003 said they had camped in an Idaho park in the last year. They hoped this would give some indication of what proportion of all Idahoans go camping annually. (a) What is the population? (b) What is the parameter (of interest)? (c) What is the sample? (d) What is the statistic? (e) What is the most likely/obvious bias for this sample?

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One morning a local affiliate of national public radio show had an episode about parks in Idaho. During the show they asked listeners to respond to a poll and answer whether they had been camping in an Idaho park in the last year. 1287 responded, and 1003 said they had camped in an Idaho park in the last year. They hoped this would give some indication of what
proportion of all Idahoans go camping annually.


(a) What is the population?
(b) What is the parameter (of interest)?
(c) What is the sample?
(d) What is the statistic?
(e) What is the most likely/obvious bias for this sample?

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