Sample Descriptive Essay

1. “When investigating a large population, it is often impractical and usually unnecessary to measure all the elements in the population of interest. Typically, a relatively small number of subject or cases is selected from the larger population.” (McMillian, 2012, p.96) According to McMillian (2012), population is a target you want to study to develop knowledge and to create action plans to assist those individuals. An example is when a researcher use a group of students with autism to find out…

This sample method was chosen over the other methods as it involved asking random people the questions from the questionnaire. This saved us time as we were able to ask a group of students in different classrooms and this made it easy for us to get 100 responses…

primary caregivers to adolescent insecure attachment, intending for a working model of attachment and metallization during adolescence (Boreli, Snavely, Compare, Decio, 2014). Although the study used robust sampling methods, it used a low-risk Italian sample population (Boreli, Snavely, Compare, Decio, 2014) which limits broader application. Therefore it only allowed for investigation on the link between neglect and attachment security, and could not confirm causation. The Research Ethics Board…

Overall, I rate this article as a 4 out of 5. It is very well organized, presents samples and comparisons and is very well written. The only thing, I would change in this article would be the organization of the topics. For Example, The hypotheses, methods and procedures were placed at the end with the results. I believe the hypotheses, methods, and procedures would have been more effective placed at the beginning of the article before the presentation of the data that is broken up into sections…

are respondents who are preferably the primary purchaser in their household and have some knowledge regarding EF products. The more accurately we are able to have our sample represent this population, the more accurate our final results will be. Since our main sampling method uses the convenience approach, the majority of our sample will be UFV students. Our working population, the UFV students, represent the multicultural aspect of our target population well. UFV has a variety of students from…

According to Bachman & Schutt (2014): Research should expose participants to no more than minimal risk of personal harm, researchers should fully disclose the purposes of their research, participation in research should be voluntary, and therefore subjects must give their informed consent to participate in the research, and confidentiality must be maintained for individual research participants unless it is voluntarily and explicitly waived. (p. 60) Although Dr. Coswalt protects the research…

through twelfth grade, which are in disadvantaged environments, according to the United States Census. Probability sampling will be used so that it can be known in advance how likely it is that certain element of the population will be selected for the sample. Along with that, stratified random…

I decided on it because a survey provides a relatively large of information in a relatively short amount of time from a large population. My population of interest was people in Brooklyn, specifically around the areas I frequent. I used a random sample, along with some clustering. Including…

The researchers of this article used a single descriptive study. While it was not clearly labeled what type of study it was it could be deduced: it provided information on naturally occurring events and behaviors in relation to the number of hours the group of RN’s worked. They sent out packages including…

Students in the online sections should email their cases to their online TA. Name: Jennifer Johnson Zhao Jin OIS – 3440 Applications of Business Statistics Section “00” Instructor: Professor Tariq Mughal Case 10.1 Motive Power Company – part 1 Executive Summary In case 10 .1 Motive Power Company Part 1, manufacturing manager Cregg Hart is approached by another supplier for rivets. Motive Power is very keen on their quality and are interested in evaluating the new rivets by…