A random sample is a sample drawn in such a way that every item in the population has an equal and independent chance of being included in the sample.
In real life, the ability to choose a random sample is dependent on the type of object being sampled: If the population is small and in a single place, say balls in an urn, you just pick a ball out of the urn. But say you want to choose a random sample of the people in a small town. This is far more problematic - you have to have a list of all the people, and then choose random items from the list. But you may not have access to that list. Please see the story of the Literary Digest Presidential Election Poll at the related link to appreciate the problem of a non-random sample.
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Two random samples are dependent if each data value in one sample can be paired with a corresponding data value in the other sample.
A 'random' sample - covers all age groups, genders, and other criteria. A 'targeted' sample might only cover a small part of the population.
stratified sampling, in which the population is divided into classes, and random samples are taken from each class;cluster sampling, in which a unit of the sample is a group such as a household; andsystematic sampling, which refers to samples chosen by any system other than random selection.
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Data from random samples will not always include the same values. Values are chosen randomly and they may or may not be the same. So means will vary among random samples.
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Two random samples are dependent if each data value in one sample can be paired with a corresponding data value in the other sample.
A 'random' sample - covers all age groups, genders, and other criteria. A 'targeted' sample might only cover a small part of the population.
random sampling
There are 324,632 possible samples.
stratified sampling, in which the population is divided into classes, and random samples are taken from each class;cluster sampling, in which a unit of the sample is a group such as a household; andsystematic sampling, which refers to samples chosen by any system other than random selection.
Samples of what?
Random samples
Two random samples are dependent if each data value in one sample can be paired with a corresponding data value in the other sample.