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It is a form of nonrandom sampling. In essence it means obtaining observations that are easiest to get. For example, asking your friends how they plan to vote would be a political poll based on a convenience sample.
Many types of formal, probability statistics are meaningless when convenience sampling is done. The researcher cannot claim to "generalize" their findings to any particular population. You probably could not accurately (i.e., within a couple percentage points) predict an election result based only on what your friends say. Therefore most typical statistical studies would avoid convenience sampling. It may be very useful for qualitative studies, but less so for quantitative work.
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Non -probability sample techniques?
Convenience sampling or quota sampling.
A community college student interviews everyone in a statistics class to determine who owns a car what sampling technique is used?
The answer your looking for is Convenience, because it was convenient for the student to interview his class.
What is meant by statistics?
satistics is knothing but, sampling character is called as statistics By P.Sugapriya paranjothi
Define the four different sampling techniques?
1) Simple random sampling 2) Systematic sampling 3) Stratified sampling 4) Cluster sampling 5) Probability proportional to size sampling 6) Matched random sampling 7) Quota sampling 8) Convenience sampling 9) Line-intercept sampling 10) Panel sampling
What kind of sample is it when you select individuals who are easily obtained?
It is called convenience sampling.
