Most medicines are currently prescribed empirically. Some work for almost all relevant patients, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for pain relief, the proton-pump inhibitors ...

Suppose that the sample of students described in the previous section was actually selected using stratified random sampling. In stratified sampling, the study population is divided into ...

Suppose that the previous student sample is actually drawn from a stratified sampling. The strata are grades in the junior high school: the 7th grade, the 8th grade, and the 9th grade. Within strata, ...

Stratified sampling is used to select a sample that is representative of different groups. If the groups are of different sizes, the number of items selected from each group will be proportional to ...

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