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Sampling and Generalizability
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- Sampling issues
This page, created by Newspapers in Education (NIE) has numerous sets of links to newspaper articles that feature sampling issues. Each set has three links. The first is to the article. The second has questions that you should try to answer after reading the article, and the third presents a teacher’s discussion of the article in terms the sampling issues.
- Sampling in Research
This is a fairly in depth tutorial on the topic of sampling. It was written by Fridah W Mugo at Cornell University, and discusses several related issues such as error, bias, etc.
- Research Randomizer
The Research Randomizer is an online tool that can help you generate random samples.
- Populations and samples
The Psi Café at Portland State University discusses these topics. In addition, it has numerous links to related sites.
- Definitions of sampling terms
The Research Methods Knowledge Base’s definitions of Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, Systematic Random Sampling, Cluster Random Sampling, and Multi-stage Sampling.
- Statistics Glossary
Here you will find precise definitions of many important sampling concepts and several examples.
- Sample Size Calculator
This site, created by Creative Research Systems, can calculate the sample size you will need when conducting survey research. It also briefly defines two terms that are important in survey research: confidence interval and confidence level.
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