Sampling: SR - Lecturer C.P.Rashmi
Sampling: SR - Lecturer C.P.Rashmi
Sr.Lecturer
C.P.Rashmi
Concept of population
A population can be defined as including all people or
items with the characteristic one wishes to understand.
Because there is very rarely enough time or money to
gather information from everyone or everything in a
population, the goal becomes finding a representative
sample (or subset) of that population.
Note also that the population from which the sample is
drawn may not be the same as the population about
which we actually want information. Ex- for instance, we
might study rats in order to get a better understanding of
human health, or we might study records from people
born in 2008 in order to make predictions about people
born in 2009.
What is sampling?
Sampling is the act, process, or
technique of selecting a suitable
sample, or a representative part of
a population for the purpose of
determining parameters or
characteristics of the whole
population.
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