You Are Conducting a Study Utilizing Quota Sampling to Determine

question 12

Multiple Choice

You are conducting a study utilizing quota sampling to determine how age impacts anxiety in pediatric patients. You want half of your sample to be <8 years old and half to be >8 years old. You begin enrolling on your unit and complete enrolling the >8-year-old portion of your sample the first day and still need 6 more subjects who are <8 years old. You return the second day and begin by taking the following action:

• A) randomly select six more subjects who are <8years old
• B) enroll all of those who are<8 years old and eligible to participate that day
• C) estimate your sampling error by determining the age of all patients that day
• D) enroll the first six patients who are <8 years old and eligible to participate

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Definitions:

Common Difference

The steady gap found between successive numbers in an arithmetic progression.

Common Ratio

In a geometric sequence, the consistent factor by which each term is multiplied to produce the next term.

Geometric Sequence

A geometric sequence is a sequence of numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed, non-zero number called the common ratio.

Common Ratio

In a geometric sequence, the constant factor by which each term is multiplied to get the next term.