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母集団 (ぼしゅうだん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
noun
population ; universe ; parent set
mathematics
Technical term in statistics and mathematics referring to the entire set of items or individuals from which a sample is drawn. Not used for biological populations or general groups of people.
We randomly select a sample from the population.
Kanji 集 gather, meet, congregate Similar words 標ひょう 本ほん 標本 is a sample drawn from the 母集団 (population).
人じん 口こう 人口 refers to a human population in a demographic sense, while 母集団 is a statistical term for any complete set under study.
Etymology Compound of 母 (mother, base) + 集団 (group, collective), literally 'mother group'. The term was coined in Japanese statistics to translate the English 'population' or 'universe'.
