The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 8 - Producing Data: Sampling - Chapter 8 Exercises - Exploring the Web - Page 225: 8.50a

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Question of Interest : How many students get a job after completion of Masters in University. Two bad ways to collect sample for it: 1) 10 students from each Masters class and finding number of students who have gotten jobs out of these 10 students Problem with the sample: 10 is not proportionate to the size of the class which can give skewed results 2) Sample Masters students at the canteen of the University Problem with sample: Some Masters students who are from a school which is closer to the canteen are a more frequent visitor to the canteen so bias of these students of such school will be there in the result.

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Question of Interest : How many students get a job after completion of Masters in University. Two bad ways to collect sample for it: 1) 10 students from each Masters class and finding number of students who have gotten jobs out of these 10 students Problem with the sample: 10 is not proportionate to the size of the class which can give skewed results 2) Sample Masters students at the canteen of the University Problem with sample: Some Masters students who are from a school which is closer to the canteen are a more frequent visitor to the canteen so bias of these students of such school will be there in the result.
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