Sampling quiz

Is the process of selecting observations that will be analyzed for research purposes.

• Population

• Sampling

• Sample

• Purposive

Researcher selects cases from within several different subgroups.

• Purposive sample

• Quota sample

• Convenience sample

• Snowball

Researcher seeks out elements that meet specific criteria

• Purposive sample

• Quota sample

• Convenience sample

• Snowball

Refers to sampling techniques for which a person’s (or event’s) likelihood of being selected for membership in the sample is known.

• Non probability sample

• Sampling

• Probability sample

• Snowball

Researcher selects every kth element from sampling frame

• Random sample

• Cluster

• Systematic

• Stratified

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Researcher might know of one or two people she’d like to include in her study but then relies on those initial participants to help identify additional study participants. This is related with----

• Cluster

• Convenience

• Random

• Snowball

Occurs when a researcher begins by sampling groups of population elements and then selects elements from within those groups.

• Cluster

• Snowball

• Systematic

• Convenience

Refers to sampling techniques for which a person’s (or event’s or researcher’s focus’s) likelihood of being selected for membership in the sample is unknown.

• Probability Sampling

• Sample

• Nonprobability sampling

• Convenience sample

To draw a convenience sample, a researcher simply collects data from those people or other relevant elements to which he or she has most convenient access.

• True

• False

_______is a statistical calculation of the difference between results from a sample and the actual parameters of a population.

• Probability sampling

• Sampling error

• Non probability Sampling