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A team of Bristol researchers observed the exploratory behaviour of ants to inform the development of a more efficient mathematical sampling technique. Animals like ants have the challenge of ...

Systematic sampling means testing a hypothesis by taking several equally spaced items from a larger list, eg selecting the tenth, 20th and 30th visitor to a theme park. This can be particularly useful ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is often called the nation’s report card because it is the only measure of student achievement given periodically to a sampling of students ...

Stratified sampling is used to select a sample that is representative of different groups. If the groups are of different sizes, the number of items selected from each group will be proportional to ...