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  1. Jun 2025
    1. Perfect for building understanding about approaches for summarizing population parameters, then later for exploring parameter estimation methods.

      Should this be a sentence?

    2. We’ve seen that estimators applied to samples selected using SRS and SRSWR yield unbiased estimates of population parameters such as the mean, total, variance, standard deviation, and measures of dispersion key to inference, such as the standard error of the mean.

      The last part of this sentence doesn't read very well.

    3. A closed interval, denoted by square brackets, means the endpoints are included in the interval. For example, [50,150][50,150][50, 150] in Table 11.1 is a closed interval with endpoints 50 and 150. There are 7 population units with biomass (Mg/ha) that fall within this interval. A closed interval can also be written using ≤≤\le notation, e.g., [50,150]={50≤y≤150}[50,150]={50≤y≤150}[50, 150]=\{50 \le y \le 150\}. An open interval, denoted by parentheses, means the endpoints are not included in the interval. Following from open and closed notation, a half-open interval includes only one of its endpoints, and is denoted by one parentheses and one square bracket, e.g., there are 8 units that fall within the half-open interval (150,250](150,250](150,250] or {150<y≤250}{150<y≤250}\{150 < y \le 250\}.

      I think this was mentioned in a previous chapter, maybe when building stand and stock tables. Perhaps it's a good idea to mention it again, but I thought I'd point it out.