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Representative sample:
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accurately represents a POPULATION
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Generalizability:
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ensuring that your findings will apply to other people
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Sampling Error
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How far off your sample is from your population
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Sampling Frame
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A realistic version of your population; the ones you can identify and access
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Unit of analysis
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sampling units
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Random Sampling
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Each person in the population has equal chance of being included
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Nonrandom Sampling
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Sample that is not generalizable to the population
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Response Rate
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The proportion of people actually included in a sample, realative to the number of people that were attempted to be included
Higher response rate the better |
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Refusal Rate
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The number of people that refuse participation in a study
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Statistical Power
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The probability your research will identify a statistical effect when it occurs.
The larger the sample the more statistical power you have. |
