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lilldybug07

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A researcher is interested in how individuals in a certain city feel about the chance of their becoming victims of a crime. To investigate this question, she randomly selects 12 city blocks and then randomly selects a certain number of people from each block. This method of sampling is known as
 
  a. stratified random sampling
  b. cluster sampling
  c. purposive sampling
  d. nonprobability sampling

Question 2

Oversampling happens when
 
  a. too many of one subpopulation is selected by chance
  b. a subpopulation is intentionally over represented in a sample
  c. sampling is conducted in two waves on the same population
  d. extra individuals are selected in case of incomplete data


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b


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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Wow, this really help

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