Suppose that the previous student sample is actually drawn from a stratified sampling. The strata are grades in the junior high school: the 7th grade, the 8th grade, and the 9th grade. Within strata, ...

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 ...

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primary - information that is collected first-hand, eg tallies, measurements and photographs secondary - information that someone else has previously collected and made available, eg on the internet ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Optimum allocation in stratified random sampling leads to a constrained optimization problem which is usually solved by any of the following ...

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Suppose that the sample of students described in the previous section was actually selected using stratified random sampling. In stratified sampling, the study population is divided into ...