A quality control manager at an aerospace firm wants to test the tensile strength of a new batch of titanium fasteners. The factory has produced 8,500 fasteners today, and the manager compiles a database containing the unique serial numbers for every fastener in this batch.
In this statistical study, what term is used to describe this compiled database of serial numbers from which a sample will be drawn?
sampling frame
sampling unit
target population
census
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