Understanding sampling: representativeness matters
Autor: | Iain K. Crombie, Huw Davies, J.P.L. Davis |
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Rok vydání: | 2001 |
Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
General Veterinary Patient Selection Population Reproducibility of Results Sampling (statistics) Sample (statistics) Data science Representativeness heuristic Social group Nonprobability sampling Research Design Sample size determination Sample Size Humans education Psychology Social psychology |
Zdroj: | Hospital Medicine. 62:237-240 |
ISSN: | 2053-4299 1462-3935 |
DOI: | 10.12968/hosp.2001.62.4.2052 |
Popis: | Sampling, or selecting a group of people to represent a whole population, lies at the heart of almost all research designs. There are many ways of going about this, each of which presents its own problems. The trick is to obtain a good-sized sample that is truly representative of the population as a whole. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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