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Designing the Sample



To understand thoroughly the meaning of reliability and validity.

To comprehend the relationship between sample size and confidence intervals.

To grasp the relationship between population variance and confidence intervals.

To recognize the indicators for a large sample versus a small sample size.

To understand the reasons for stratifying a sample and the procedures for doing so.

To appreciate the economy and understand the method for clustering a sample.

To anticipate the potential for sampling bias and control the main sources of bias.







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