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TO SAMPLE OR NOT TO SAMPLE

The Manchester School, 2006
Suppose a prospective oil field is partitioned into a finite number of lots. Conventional wisdom suggests that failing to find oil on one lot is bad news regarding subsequent exploration of other lots, due to a ‘common pool’ effect. Here we identify situations where failing to find oil on a lot may be good news.
Hans Haller, Anthony Pavlopoulos
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A Sample is a Sample is a Sample

Teaching Statistics, 1981
The exercise described has been used for students on the BEC Higher Diploma Course. They average 19 years of age and rarely arrive arrive with Mathematics beyond O‐level. Teachers on BEC National and A‐level Statistics courses should also find the exercise of interest.
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Sampling the Difficult-to-Sample

The Journal of Nutrition, 1991
Difficult-to-sample populations are defined as rare populations or populations that are difficult to locate, enumerate or interview. This definition includes subgroups of the United States population that are at increased risk of adverse health effects associated with malnutrition.
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Sampling and Sample Preparation

2014
Sampling and sample preparation include the treatment of the theory, the methodology of sampling in all physical phases, and the theory of sample preparation for all major extraction techniques. The analytes in food sample are randomly distributed and variability.
Ozyurt V.H., Otles S.
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Sampling, Sample Moments and Sampling Distributions [PDF]

, 2012
Prior to this point, our study of probability theory and its implications has essentially addressed questions of deduction, being of the type: “Given a probability space, what can we deduce about the characteristics of outcomes of an experiment?” Beginning with this chapter, we turn this question around, and focus our attention on statistical inference
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Samples, Sampling and Sample Collection

1994
In disease investigation, the term sample is used in two different ways; as a synonym for specimen, as in blood sample, and in the statistical sense of a sub-collection or sub-set of units drawn from the population. Collection and analysis of samples is the basis of investigation, and the validity of the results and conclusions of any study is totally ...
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A Sample of Sampling Definitions

Teaching of Psychology, 1980
If this is a problem for authors and statisticians, it must be very confusing for students.
Richard Tusing, Philip Bobko, Shari Miller   +2 more
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