A population differs from a sample in that the population is:
A)a fraction of the sample.
B)the cluster of people,events,things,or other phenomena that you are most interested in.
C)the cluster of people related to quantitative research.
D)the cluster of people related to qualitative research.
E)the cluster of people related to nomothetic research and uses ordinal,nominal,and index levels of measurement.

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A population refers to the entire group of people, events, things, or other phenomena that is of interest to the researcher, whereas a sample is a subset of that population that is actually studied. Therefore, option B is the correct answer since it describes what the population is.

A Population Differs from a Sample in That the Population