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Some examples of statistics are: "In a recent survey of Americans, 52% of women say global warming is happening." In this case, "52%" is a statistic, namely the percentage of women in the survey sample who believe in global warming.
The table shown on the right can be used in a two-sample t-test to estimate the sample sizes of an experimental group and a control group that are of equal size, that is, the total number of individuals in the trial is twice that of the number given, and the desired significance level is 0.05. [4]
Founder effect: The original population (left) could give rise to different founder populations (right). In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.