A worker wants to determine the average weight of fish fillets in his freezer. There are hundreds of boxes of fillets in the freezer with each box containing 15 fillets. He randomly selects 10 boxes of fish at random and pools all fillets in the 10 chosen boxes together as his sample. Is this simple random sampling, stratified sampling, or cluster sampling?

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A: Introduction :-  For the scenarios given, we have to determine which sampling method was used…

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A: Sampling is a technique in which a group of data is selected from an entire population.

Q: What sampling technique was used?

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A: Solution: The type of sampling strategy involved is  The sampling strategy is stratified sampling.

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Q: A statistics lecturer wanted to determine if the time spent studying affected a student's GPA She…

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A: Simple definitions of given sampling techniques : (a) Cluster Sampling : Surveying all individuals…

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Q: how do you find the simple random sample of 15 restaurants?

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Q: For the scenarios below, determine which sampling method was used (simple random, cluster,…

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Types of Bias

Statistics is the study of data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Statistical bias is a characteristic of a statistical technique or its findings in which the expected value deviates from the actual root quantitative parameter being estimated. According to the actual definition of bias, it refers to the tendency of a statistic to overestimate or underestimate a parameter.