Estimating Rates at Which Books Are Mis-Shelved
The basic goal of survey sampling is to draw inferences on selected parameters, or characteristics, of a population. Usually, it is impractical or impossible to examine all the individuals in an entire population. By using a controlled random sampling strategy, one can examine a sample selected from a population, which takes less time, costs less money, and is operationally simpler than doing a census. It also achieves acceptably accurate results.
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