Sampling in General Refers to Selecting Part of a Population

question 16

True/False

Sampling in general refers to selecting part of a population. In selecting samples, a researcher wants to do two related things. First, researcher selects samples to represent some larger population of people or other things. Second, the researcher may want to generalize from a sample to an unobserved population the sample is intended to represent.

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Effective Performance

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