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Random Sampling

In: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

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Edited by: Neil J. Salkind Published: 2007

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952644.n373

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Three concepts that are relevant to understanding “random sampling” are population, sample, and sampling. A population is a set of elements (e.g., scores of a group of prisoners on a personality scale, weights of newborns of ...

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