Exam 7: Sampling Approaches and Considerations

A judgment sample is sometimes referred to as a _____ sample.

When selecting citizens for jury duty, a local municipality randomly draws names from the registered voter database. Each voter has a 20 percent chance of being called up. What type of sampling method does this represent?

The _____ is the complete group of objects or elements relevant to the research project. They are relevant because they possess the information the research project is designed to collect.

In nonprobability sampling, elements are selected randomly and the selection probabilities are preset by the researcher.

The sampling design process involves answering all of the following questions EXCEPT _____.

Which of the following is a type a probability sampling method?

List the five steps in the sampling process.

Which is NOT a decision that must be made when statistical formulas are used to determine the sample size?

Explain why a sample of 500 is equally useful in understanding the opinions of a target population of 15 million as it is for one of 100,000. Is this true for populations of 1,000? Explain.

Name and describe the five probabilistic sampling designs.

Kim randomly selects ten people to participate in her study. To increase her sample size, Kim asks each respondent to refer her to two other individuals that are similar to the original respondent. She then asks those individuals for two more individuals that are similar to them. Kim is using a _____ sample.

Elements or objects available for selection during the sampling process are known as the _____. They can be people, households, census tracts, businesses, or any logical unit relevant to the study's objective.

A _____ involves collecting data from all members of a population.

In which type of sampling method are sampling methods selected randomly and the probability of being selected is determined ahead of time by the researchers?

In ____, the overall sample size will be the total of all the elements from each of the strata, and the number of elements chosen from each strata is proportionate to the size of a particular strata relative to the overall sample size.

Which of the following is the number of population elements between each unit selected when using systematic sampling?

Which sampling method involves selecting sample elements that are most readily available to participate in the study and can provide the information required?

All of the following are types of nonprobability sampling methods EXCEPT _____.

Hattie has defined the target population of a study to be marketing managers in large manufacturing firms (i.e., over $100 million in sales). She doesn't want to collect data from all members of the target population, just a subset of them that is representative of the target population. She wants to collect a _____.

Multistage cluster sampling does not actually involve a sequence of stages.