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SECTION 8.4 11. An intern for the environmental group in Exercise 3 on coping with climate change that was recently held in the top of the list, which was generated as the members has decided to make the survey process simpler by calling 150 of the members who attended the recent symposium Burlington, VT. He has all the phone numbers, so it will be easy to contact them. He will start calling members from enrolled for the symposium. He has written a script to read to them that follows, "As we learned in Burlington, climate change is a serious problem for farmers. Given the evidence of impact on crops, do you agree that the government should be doing be doin more to fight global warmin more to fight global warming?" a) What is the population of interest? b) What is the sampling frame? c) Point out any problems you see either with the sampling procedure and/or the survey itself. What are the potential impacts of these problems? 12. The airline company in Exercise 4 has realized that some of its customers don't have e-mail or don't read it regularly. They decide to restrict the mailing only to cus- tomers who have recently registered for a "Win a trip to Miami" contest, figuring that those with Internet access are more likely to read and to respond to their e-mail They send an e-mail with the following messa "Did you know that National Airlines has just spent over S3 million refurbishing our brand new hub in Miami? By answering the following question, you may be eligible to win $1000 worth of coupons that can be spent in any of the fabulous restaurants or shops in the Miami airport. Might

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11.

(a) The population of interest is :

The members who attended the recent symposium on copying with climate change that was recently held in Burlington, VT.

(b) Here the sampling frame is:

Members from the top of the list who enrolled for the symposium.

(c) The sampling procedure is a bit biased here, as members from the top of the list are called.. instead if a random sample could be taken from those members, it would be quite great sampling procedure..