Abel Dallas
Abel Dallas voted up sherlin smith's answer

Since it is generally impossible to study an entire population (every individual in a country, all college students, every geographic area, etc.), researchers typically rely on sampling to acquire a section of the population to perform an experiment or observational study. It is important that the group selected be representative of the population, and not … Read more

Abel Dallas
Abel Dallas voted up Nouman Umar's answer
In the unrestricted probability sampling design, more commonly known as simple random sampling every element in the population has a know and equal chance of being selected as a subject. Let us say there are 1000 elements in the population and we need a sample of 100. Suppose we were to drop pieces of paper … Read more