Answer to Question #122194 in Statistics and Probability for Maricar Chavez

Question

a cetain company has 850 employees distributed into four department wiyh population 50, 200, 450 ,150 respectively.If you wish to determined the sample size ,what technique would you adopt in statistics?

Answer 1

Stratified random sampling because it depends on dividing the population into homogeneous groups (strata) and then randomly choose members from the various strata for research which reduces cost and improves efficiency, in our example each department represent a strata.