SAMPLING Sampling is the act‚ process‚ or technique of selecting a suitable sample‚ or a representative part of a population for the purpose of determining parameters or characteristics of the whole population. REASONS FOR SAMPLING There are six main reasons for sampling instead of doing a census. These are; * Economy * Timeliness * The large size of many populations * Inaccessibility of some of the population * Destructiveness of the observation * Accuracy or Reliability
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light energy from the sun to make their own food (photosynthesise). Sampling plants 1. RANDOM SAMPLING Random sampling is usually carried out when the area under study is fairly uniform‚ very large‚ and or there is limited time available. When using random sampling techniques‚ large numbers of samples/records are taken from different positions within the habitat. A quadrat frame is most often used for this type of sampling. The frame is placed on the ground (or on whatever is being investigated)
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Application of sampling distribution Joe Greene‚ a new manager at Pilgrim Bank wants to better understand profitability data for bank’s customers. Joe is able to obtain a random sample of 31‚634 customers on the following variables – Profitability (in $‚ for the most recent completed year‚ i.e. 2006)‚ whether or not the customer uses the online banking channel‚ customer tenure‚ age and income where available‚ as well as the customer’s residential area. Descriptive statistics for Profits indicates
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SAMPLING TECHINIQUE PROBABILITY SAMPLING Having chosen a suitable sampling frame and established the actual sample size required‚ you need to select the most appropriate sampling technique to obtain a representative sample. The basic principle of probability sampling is that elements are randomly selected in a population. This ensures that bias is avoided in the identification of the elements. It is an efficient method of selecting elements which may have varied characteristics‚ as the process
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Aim * To educate students on what instruments they should use for sampling of water sample. * To expose the students the proper technique to measure the water. * To give the students experience with sampling of water sample. Introduction Pollution can be defined as a harm to the environment which can cause a lot of bad consequences to human health‚ living resources and ecological. Thus‚ pollutants can be gain from many sources and can take many forms. The pollutants can contaminate
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Sampling Methodologies Population: Population is defined as including all items with the characteristic one wishes to understand. Because there is seldom enough time or money to gather information from everyone or everything in a population‚ the goal is to find a representative sample (or subset) of that population. For example‚ a researcher might study the success rate of a new ’quit smoking’ program on a sample group of 50 patients‚ in order to predict the effects of the program if it were
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improved VIII. Proposed Improvement Processes IX. Significance of the Proposed Improvement X. Recommendations l. COMPANY NAME or ORGANIZATION’S NAME MINISTOP II. COMPANY PROFILE a. Background of the Company Minutestop is a 24-hour convenience store named by a Californian consultant first introduced the famed retail store as "...a store where everyone stops by for a minute." Later on‚ the name became MINISTOP-- when the Japanese--owned company decided to make it less of a tongue twister
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Sampling methodologies Sampling It may be defined as a process of selecting units that may be people‚ organizations etc‚ from a larger whole i.e. from a population of interest‚ so that by studying the sample we may come up with general characteristics of the entire population under consideration. Types of sampling methods: Probability sampling Probability sampling is a type of sampling that includes random selection. And in order to achieve random selection‚ it must be
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The key is the use of statistically derived random sampling procedures. These ensure that survey results can be defended as statistically representative of the population. Surveys that do not follow these procedures can produce results that lead to misguided market research‚ strategic‚ or policy decisions. Any so-called "survey" in which no attempt is made to randomly select respondents‚ such as call-in readers’ or viewers’ "polls"‚ is likely to produce results that in no way reflect overall public
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Statistical Sampling Statistical Sampling 1. The authors of the paper make assumptions about the U.S. population on three dimensions. What are the three dimensions? (Hint: The authors refer to these dimensions as "components of change.") Answer: The three dimensions would be migration‚ fertility‚ and mortality. 2. What is the expected population of the U.S. in 2050 given the new series (i.e.‚ based on 1998 data) based on the lowest series? The middle series? And the highest
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