Common Core · High school
HSS-IC.A.1
High school — Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based on a random sample from that population.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Estimate a population total from the proportion found in a random sample.
- Judge whether a sampling method is likely to be representative.
- Estimate a population size with the capture-recapture method.
- State a margin of error and the interval of plausible values around an estimate.