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A population is the entire set of units from which a sample may be drawn.

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Does it make sense to use a population parameter like $\sigma$ (population standard deviatio...

But in practical life, we resort to sampling because we don't know much about the entire population. So shouldn't an error formula involve only sample statistics and not population parameters? … How will I calculate SE, when I do not know what the population sigma is? …