Consider the example in the section "Stratified Sampling". The study population is a junior high school with a total of 4,000 students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Researchers want to know how much these ...

Survey researchers increasingly recognize that a single survey of the general public can rarely represent the views of small groups of Americans. Such surveys frequently have too few interviews with ...

Understanding the differences between convenience, target, and self-selected samples. Representative samples and sampling are addressed multiple times in the cGMPs. For example, in Part 21 of the Code ...

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