Common Core · High school
HSS-IC.B.3
High school — Recognise the purposes of and differences among sample surveys, experiments and observational studies; explain how randomisation relates to each.
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.