The Sampling Method Used to Examine a Population When the Auditor

question 97

Multiple Choice

The sampling method used to examine a population when the auditor wants to estimate a continuous amount (or value) of the population is:

• A)Attributes sampling.
• B)Balance sampling.
• C)Discovery sampling.
• D)Variables sampling.

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Definitions:

Political Preferences

Individual or collective choices or inclinations regarding political parties, policies, or candidates.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or variability within a data set, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean.

Squared Deviation

The square of the difference between a value and a reference point or mean, often used in statistics to measure variability.

Mean

A statistical measure representing the average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.