SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nonprobability Sampling, Quota Sampling, Snowball Sampling
30 Jan 2020
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Key terms: the process of selecting observations is called sampling, population: any entire collection of people, groups, organizations or things from which we may collect data. 100 mcmaster students that completed an online survey: element: unit of which a population is comprised, and which is selected in a sample. Unit about which inferences are made: e. g. individual person. The term for this is equal probability of selection method or epsem: bigger samples are better than smaller samples, although there is a diminishing return to larger samples. It is difficult to get information about a whole population (e. g. , the population of. In the case of canada, new immigrants are coming in and older people are dying: to solve the problem, a sampling frame is drawn. The sampling frame is a list or quasi- list of elements composing a population from which a sample is drawn.
