Sampling

Cards (2)

  • Explain how using stratified sampling might improve the design of this study.
    stratified sampling could ensure that various groups are represented in terms of their proportionality in the population
    this would improve the generalisability of the results.
  • How to do stratified sampling?
    identify strata/sub-groups in their population: e.g. different year groups (accept other possible strata, eg gender)
    obtain a specific number from each strata
    use a random sampling procedure eg random number generator
    how the random sampling procedure would be implemented, eg assign each student in each year group a number then use a computer, calculator or random number table to select 2 from each year