In a recently published news story, we learn about a young doctor, Jake Deutsch, and his personal experience with coronavirus disease 2019. Deutsch tested positive for Covid-19 and checked himself ...

Randomly selected samples from a larger population prevent bias in statistical procedures while avoiding the hassle of dealing with the entire dataset. If you have a list of entries to pick from in ...

The following PROC SURVEYSELECT statements select a probability sample of customers from the Customers data set using simple random sampling. title1 'Customer Satisfaction Survey'; proc surveyselect ...

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...

Stephen John Haslett is a member of the NZ Ministry of Health Covid-19 Expert Advisory Network. As a member of the Te Punaha Matatini research collaboration Richard Arnold receives funding from the ...

Why is random sampling important? Because it makes it easier to make generalizations. For instance, it is difficult to make generalizations about how Covid-19 is affecting people if we use a ...