The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to conduct a survey of recently graduated family practitioners to assess why they did not choose pediatrics for their specialization. Provide a definition of the population, suggest a sampling frame, and indicate the appropriate sampling unit.Please do not provide definitions of the words, but instead describing each word that it pertains to conducting the survey.

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Step 1Population is the complete set of people or objects with certain common characteristics under the study and the sample is the subset of population used to estimate the population parameters. Sampling frame is the list of units that has been taken according to the purpose of the study covering the population. Sample unit is a unit taken from population for the purpose of sampling. These units are distinct, unambiguous and non-overlapping in nature.Step 2From the given question, we get(a.) Population: Since survey is conducted on recently graduated family practitioners and we know that sample is a subset of population that is complete list of individuals with common characteristics. So, here the population is all family practitioners who are recently graduated in a geographic regions according the study. (b.) Sampling Frame: From above, we get the population is all family practitioners who are recently graduated and we know that sampling frame is the list of population units. So, here the sampling frame is the list of all family practitioners who are recently graduated in a geographic regions according the study.. (c.) Sampling Unit: Since the population here is all family practitioners who are recently graduated so, an individual taken from this population for survey, will be called as sampling unit. So, the sampling unit is a family practitioner who has been recently graduated.

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