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Population

The totality of items or units of material under consideration. The word items may be interpreted in the sense of measurements, or possible measurements, of a single characteristic, or occasionally for multiple characteristics, on all items or units of material being considered. The word totality may refer to items not available for inclusion in samples as well as those which are available.

Committee

Trace Materials

Date Added to Lexicon

06/12/2023

Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)

ANSI/ASTM E456-13A(2017)E1 Standard Terminology Relating to Quality and Statistics. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2017. Source link

Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org