PLG 600 Final: PLG600-Final-Exam-Notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Planning
• Course: PLG 600
• Professor: Raktim Mitra

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Survey research example: ryerson typically has a survey of what students do during the reading week, and seeing the graph shows a horrifying graphic with too much overlapping of data, and no standard data management. Sampling: choosing whom or what to study: we should understand the scope of the research, the purpose, etc. These are done within the seven steps of research we talked about weeks ago, and we need to be clear about the population and sample. The population is the subject of the study, but it can be narrowed down to a representation of them on a smaller scale as a sample. It"s not always necessary to get ahold of all the population (i. e. all the commuters of. After doing the sampling process, we only obtain a smaller group of data: quiz questions, literary digest predicted the us presidential election.