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To determine whether a sample should be treated as a
Chapter 1, Problem 7E(choose chapter or problem)
To determine whether a sample should be treated as a simple random sample, which is more important: a good knowledge of statistics, or a good knowledge of the process that produced the data?
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QUESTION:
To determine whether a sample should be treated as a simple random sample, which is more important: a good knowledge of statistics, or a good knowledge of the process that produced the data?
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A simple random sampling is a technique where there is a chance that any unit from the population can be chosen as a sampling unit. Here each unit gets a same/equal chance to get included in the sample.
Some of the examples of simple random sampling are:
1) Selection of boys from a classroom.
2) A random sample of 10 numbers from the first 100 positive integers.