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Publication Date: 1987
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Selecting a Population Sample from a Business Computer File.
Wirt, Edgar
Journal of Experimental Education, v55 n3 p160-70 Spr 1987
In negotiating to obtain a sample of records from a computer file, it is important to be able to present a simple program that will produce a representative and valid sample. This article describes two procedures: (1) an interval selection method; and (2) a random numbers file. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Business, Computers, Databases, Intervals, Programing, Sample Size, Sampling
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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