Question: A researcher wishes to estimate the proportion of all adults who own a cell phone. He takes a random sample of 1,572 adults; 1,298 of them own a cell phone, hence 1298/1572 ≈ .83 or about 83% own a cell phone.
a. What is the population of interest?
b. What is the parameter of interest?
c. What is the statistic involved?
d. Based on this sample, do we know the proportion of all adults who own a cell phone? Explain fully.