Population Mean and Sample MeanThe arithmetic mean is the average of a group of numbers and is computed by summing all numbers and dividing by the number of numbers. The arithmetic mean is also usually just called the mean.
A population is a collection of persons, objects or items of interest. A sample is a portion of the whole and, if properly taken, is representative of the whole. The population mean is represented by the Greek letter mu
The capital Greek letter sigma N is the number of terms in the population.
The sample mean is represented by
n is the number of terms in the sample.
The following video highlights the difference between the mean of a sample and the mean of a population. (Errata – the formulas were given as xn when they should have been xi)
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is commonly used in mathematics to represent a summation of all the numbers in a grouping. 
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