Re: Proposal for representing Aggregate Statistical Data

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 11:04, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk> wrote:

> On 28/06/2019 03:22, Michael Andrews wrote:
>
> The naming of a type as StatisticalPopulation makes sense when talking
> about people (or possibly other living things) with respect to a location
> -- the focus of DataCommons.org.  There are of course many other kinds of
> statistical data not focused on human characteristics that in the public
> domain, relating to manufacturing production, air quality, road haulage,
> etc.  When reporting about non-living phenomenon, the term
> StatisticalPopulation doesn't sound right.
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> The term Statistical Population is used in statistics for any group, or
> notional group, on which measurements are made or from which a sample is
> drawn so that measurements can be made, see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_population
>
Thanks - exactly. Since we are using the statistical terminology, and many
readers won't have encountered it, we ought to link to that Wikipedia entry
or similar to provide more context/background.

Dan