The problem of statistical inference can be described as follows. There is a population and we would like to know certain aspects of the units that make up the population. For example, we might want to know what proportion have a certain property, or what the mean value (of some measure) of all units in the population is. The population is too large to sample in its entirety, so we rely on information from a sample taken from the population.
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