Practice Quiz Chapter 08

. ________ sampling procedures are more suited to qualitative research studies.

. Some people confuse accidental sampling with ________ sampling.

. The ________ sampling procedure is appropriate if the researcher is not interested in drawing conclusions about a larger group on the basis of the group under investigation.

. The ________ sampling procedure is useful when a particular group or characteristic is relatively rare in the population.

. ________ sampling is appropriate for studying extreme cases of a phenomenon.

. The ________ sampling procedure is often appropriate when a researcher wants to compare two groups of very different size.

. If the researcher is not interested in drawing conclusions for a larger population than that actually studied, then ________.

. Accidental sampling procedure is also known as ________.

. ________ sampling involves using what is immediately available.

. In stratified random sampling, the criterion for identifying the quota or strata is determined by the ________.

. An accidental sampling procedure is not appropriate when the researcher wishes to use ________ modelling techniques to identify trends.

. Maria, the head of a local TV station, recently conducted a study of TV watchers in her town. First, she obtained a list of all residential customers from the cable TV company billing list. She then selected customers from the 20,000 households on the billing list by taking every 40th household. A trained interviewer then went and visited each household and asked specific questions about the viewing habits of various family members. Maria's sample size is ________.

. ________ sampling is also known as judgmental sampling.

. ________ sampling is most often used when the topic is new and has not yet been fully explored.

. Public opinion polls often use some variation of ________ sampling.

. A ________ is prepared prior to the collection of data to in order to help the researcher determine the size of the sample.

. The biggest challenge in using the internet as a sampling source is ________.

. The starting point when using a random number table is picked using ________.

. In terms of sample size, the minimum number of individual elements required in order to provide a pool large enough for even simple kinds of statistical analysis is ________.

. Generally, the rule of thumb regarding dummy tables is that you require a sample size ________ times the number of cells in the table.

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. ________ sampling procedures are more suited to qualitative research studies.

. Some people confuse accidental sampling with ________ sampling.

. The ________ sampling procedure is appropriate if the researcher is not interested in drawing conclusions about a larger group on the basis of the group under investigation.

. The ________ sampling procedure is useful when a particular group or characteristic is relatively rare in the population.

. ________ sampling is appropriate for studying extreme cases of a phenomenon.

. The ________ sampling procedure is often appropriate when a researcher wants to compare two groups of very different size.

. If the researcher is not interested in drawing conclusions for a larger population than that actually studied, then ________.

. Accidental sampling procedure is also known as ________.

. ________ sampling involves using what is immediately available.

. In stratified random sampling, the criterion for identifying the quota or strata is determined by the ________.

. An accidental sampling procedure is not appropriate when the researcher wishes to use ________ modelling techniques to identify trends.

. Maria, the head of a local TV station, recently conducted a study of TV watchers in her town. First, she obtained a list of all residential customers from the cable TV company billing list. She then selected customers from the 20,000 households on the billing list by taking every 40th household. A trained interviewer then went and visited each household and asked specific questions about the viewing habits of various family members. Maria's sample size is ________.

. ________ sampling is also known as judgmental sampling.

. ________ sampling is most often used when the topic is new and has not yet been fully explored.

. Public opinion polls often use some variation of ________ sampling.

. A ________ is prepared prior to the collection of data to in order to help the researcher determine the size of the sample.

. The biggest challenge in using the internet as a sampling source is ________.

. The starting point when using a random number table is picked using ________.

. In terms of sample size, the minimum number of individual elements required in order to provide a pool large enough for even simple kinds of statistical analysis is ________.

. Generally, the rule of thumb regarding dummy tables is that you require a sample size ________ times the number of cells in the table.

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