Miguel Hernandez, Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Memorial Hospital is exploring the usage of nursing overtime hours in the emergency department during the last operating year.Staffing records and emergency department visits for 20 days between the period of January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018, are selected for analysis.For this study, the group of 20 days is a __________.
A)parameter
B)sample
C)population
D)statistic
E)frame

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The group of 20 days selected for analysis is a sample because it is a subset of all possible days in the operating year, used to make inferences about the entire period.