Miguel Hernandez,Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Memorial Hospital is exploring the usage of nursing overtime in the emergency department during the last operating year.Staffing records and emergency department visits for 20 days between the period of January 1,2012,and December 31,2012,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 is a sample, as it is a subset of the entire population (emergency department visits for the entire operating year).