SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Sciences Citation Index, Literature Review, Csa (Database Company)
18 Jan 2018
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It may be the topic you interested in because. Preparing for research and selecting methods: sample population - key terms: element or unit, refers to a single cases in the population, population, refers to all cases that a researcher is interested in, sampling frame. Is the list of elements that the sample will be selected from: sample, refers to the elements (subset of a population) selected for investigation, representative sample. Is a sample selected using a random process so that each element in the population has a known likelihood of being selected: non-probability sample. Is a sample selected using a non-random method: sampling error. Is the estimation the error that occurs because of differences between the characteristics of the sample and those of the population; difficult to eliminate: non-response. I = size of sampling interval (i. e. , 10; this random start is the first case selected)
