This is a whole lesson looking at Stratified Sampling and Random Sampling. The main part of the lesson is looking at how to calculate a stratified sample but it does include a great video on random ...

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Suppose that the sample of students described in the previous section was actually selected using stratified random sampling. In stratified sampling, the study population is divided into ...

Consider the example in the section "Stratified Sampling". The study population is a junior high school with a total of 4,000 students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Researchers want to know how much these ...