A Southern State University System Consists of 23 Campuses

question 7

Essay

A Southern State University system consists of 23 campuses. An administrator wishes to make an inference about the average distance between the hometowns of students and their campuses. Describe and discuss several different sampling methods that might be employed. Would this be an enumerative or an analytic study? Explain your reasoning.

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