How Stratified Random Sampling Works, With Examples

Stratified random sampling is a method of sampling that divides a population into smaller groups that form the basis of test ...
Psychology Today

Treatments for Covid-19 and Random Sampling

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 ...
The Washington Post

Straight talk about polling: Probability sampling can be helpful but it’s no magic bullet

Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...
The Conversation

How a random sampling regime could help detect COVID and highlight infection hotspots

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 ...
Simon Fraser University

Sample Selection Methods

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 ...
News Medical

Probability sampling to slow spread of SARS-CoV-2

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 38 million people around the world and is showing no signs of going away any time soon. Researchers worldwide are frantically working on developing an effective ...
Simon Fraser University

Simple Random Sampling

The method of simple random sampling (METHOD=SRS) selects units with equal probability and without replacement. Each possible sample of n different units out of N has the same probability of being ...