The math department faculty at a large university wanted to know what portion of the student body believes students should be able to enroll in any math class without meeting a prerequisite. The statistics department offered to cooperate in conducting a survey, and a simple random sample of 500 students was selected from all the students enrolled in statistics classes. A survey form was sent by email to these 500 students and 236 responded. What is the population of interest for this study?

The population of interest for this student is the students whom are enrolled in statistics classes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sampling

This is a common statistics practice, when we want to study something from a population, we find a sample of this population.

For example:

I want to estimate the proportion of New York state residents who are Buffalo Bills fans. So i ask, lets say, 1000 randomly selected New York state residents wheter they are Buffalo Bills fans, and expand this to the entire population of New York State residents.

The population of interest are all residents of New York State.

A simple random sample of 500 students was selected from all the students enrolled in statistics classes.

This means that the population of interest for this student is the students whom are enrolled in statistics classes.