A Pharmaceutical Company Interested in Measuring How Often Physicians Prescribe

question 33

Multiple Choice

A pharmaceutical company interested in measuring how often physicians prescribe a certain drug has selected a simple random sample from each of two groups: M.D.(medical doctors) and D.O (osteopathic doctors) .What is this type of sampling called?

• A) Simple random sampling
• B) Cluster sampling
• C) Stratified sampling
• D) Purposive sampling
• E) Quota sampling

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