Sociology 3306A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stratified Sampling, Simple Random Sample, Sampling Error
10 Apr 2020
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The total membership of a defined class of people, objects or events. A subset of cases selected from a population. The population to which a researcher would like to generalize their results. An operational definition of the population that provides the basis for drawing a sample. Constructed by 1) listing all cases from which a sample may be selected. 2) defining population membership by a rule that provides a basis for case selection. Sampling based on a process of random selection that gives each case in the population an equal or known chance of being included in the sample. A process that gives each case in the population an equal chance of being included in the sample. Probability sampling in which every possible combination of cases has an equal chance of being included in the sample. Characteristic of a population such as the percentage of women or average age. A characteristic of a sample; statistics estimate population parameters.
