You are attempting to determine whether you are taller or shorter than the average student currently...
You are attempting to determine whether you are taller
or shorter than the average student currently enrolled in your
university. You have just learned about sampling and have decided
to sample students to determine the average height at your
university.
Required:
What are some advantages and disadvantages of using
sampling to answer this question as opposed to examining the entire
population?
Give some other examples of when you would be more
likely to use sampling (applied to this particular example) as
opposed to examining the entire population.
In what cases might you want to examine the entire
population?
Homework Answers
Advantages and disadvantages of using sampling technique:
Advantages include saving in time required test the data and Non requirement to test the entire population
Disadvantages of sampling include choosing of sample size from the entire population so as to represent the entire set
Examples where sampling could be used as opposed to examining the entire population:
Sampling can be used where the data included in the population does not belong to extreme range and where the total population is large in numbers (i.e., huge amount of data to test).
Cases where entire population should be tested
In cases where the data of the population is belongs to the extreme range or where the amount of data is not really huge in numbers, entire population can be tested.
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