Population vs. Sample — What's the Difference?

In biology, a population is a number of all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.In sociology, population refers to a collection of humans.

A small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like

All the inhabitants of a particular place

A sound or piece of music created by sampling

A community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs

Take a sample or samples of (something) for analysis

A finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.

Ascertain the momentary value of (an analogue signal) many times a second so as to convert the signal to digital form

Each of three groups (designated I, II, and III) into which stars can be approximately divided on the basis of their manner of formation

A portion, piece, or segment that is representative of a whole

All of the people inhabiting a specified area.

A specimen taken for analysis or testing

The total number of such people.

(Statistics) A set of data or elements drawn from a larger population and analyzed to estimate the characteristics of that population. Also called sampling.

The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.

A usually digitized audio segment taken from an original recording and inserted, often repetitively, in a new recording.

The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.

One of a series of pieces of data representing a digitized approximation of an analog signal.

(Ecology) All the organisms of a given species interacting in a specified area.

To take a sample of, especially to test or examine by a sample

(Statistics) The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.

To use or incorporate (an audio segment of an original recording) in a new recording

The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

To represent the value of (an analog signal) at a particular point in time by means of a piece of digital data.

(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

Serving as a representative or example

A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

(statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

(business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

(music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

(obsolete) Example; pattern.

The people who inhabit a territory or state;

(transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.

A group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;

To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;

To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.

The number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.);

To make or show something similar to a sample.

The act of populating (causing to live in a place);

Example; pattern.

A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.

To make or show something similar to; to match.

To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

A small part of something intended as representative of the whole

Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

Take a sample of;