A visual representation of the sampling process. In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. Statisticians attempt to collect samples thatConfirming and disconfirming sampling * Stratified purposeful sampling. Opportunistic/emergent sampling. There are many qualitative sampling approaches proposed by Patton (1990) and others, however, we will only focus on four of these which are commonly used. We do not have time to get into others, but you can investigate them outside of this
Stratified random sampling is a sampling scheme which is used when the population comprises a number of strata, or subsets, which are similar within the strata but differ from one stratum to another. One example is school children stratified according to classes, or salaries stratified by departments.A simple random sample may not have enough
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