论文标题
过程，人口和样本：研究人员的兴趣
Process, Population, and Sample: the Researcher's Interest
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论文摘要
提出了研究人员有兴趣研究过程的案例。他们对制作感兴趣的推论通常与过程及其相关人群有关。在其他情况下，研究人员可能有兴趣对该过程产生的个人收集进行推断。我们将调用研究人员采用的统计方法来推断流程/人群``估计方法''的推断。 Deming（1953）中讨论的分析和枚举方法分别只是估计和预测方法。
A case is made that researchers are interested in studying processes. Often the inferences they are interested in making are about the process and its associated population. On other occasions, a researcher may be interested in making an inference about the collection of individuals the process has generated. We will call the statistical methods employed by the researcher to make such inferences about the process/population ``estimation methods.'' The statistical methods used in making an inference about the collection of individuals generated we call ``prediction methods.'' Methods for obtaining interval estimates of a parameter and prediction intervals for a statistic are given. The analytical and enumerative methods discussed in Deming (1953) are simply estimation and prediction methods, respectively.
