Sampling Theory
Sampling Theory
Terms to Remember
Population
Sample
Sampling
Parameter
Statistics
Sampling
distribution
Population
Sample
Module 4
Introduction
of Sampling Theory
Population
– totality of elements (set)
Sample
– one or more elements
(subset)
Examples: POPULATION
1. All students who enrolled for the current
school year
2. Government census
Examples: SAMPLE
1. Because of budget issues, she included only
and group of 200 students to participate in
her study.
2. Sample of blood to determine the blood
type of a patient.
Numerical measurements:
1. Parameter
- Population
2. Statistics
- sample
Examples:
1. The food and Nutrition Research
Institute of the Department of Science
and Technology (FNRI-DOST) surveyed
14 million Filipino adults aged 20 above
and determined that 80% of Filipino
adults are at risk of hypertension.
2. The researcher wants to estimate
the average death age of Filipino
women in the last decade and from
a sample of 100 deaths, he obtained
a sample mean age of 73.
3. Capvex is a drug used to treat patients with
metastatic breast cancer. An oncologist wants
to determine the proportions of patients
taking Capvex who are healed within 10
weeks. A random sample of 300 breast cancer
patients was selected and 250 of them were
healed after 10 weeks.
Activity # __
Read and answer the following.
1. Determine whether the following examples
refer to a population or a sample.
a. The total number of students in a school.
b. A group of 40 patients in a hospital who
are given a particular treatment.
c. The ages of all employees of a certain
company
d. The top 50 taxpayers in the Philippines.
e. The list of all the countries in the world.
2. Nonprobability Distribution
- biased selection
Sample Techniques
Probability Sampling Nonprobability Sampling
1. Convenience Sampling
- haphazard sampling
- ease of implementation
Example:
“ambush interview”
“opinion poll”
2. Purposive Sampling
- judgmental and selective
sampling
Example:
Brand of toothpaste
3. Snowball
- chain-referral sampling
Example:
recommendation
4. Quota Sampling
- equivalent to stratified random
sampling (procedure)
- purposive sampling (selection)
Example:
A study is conducted in a defined
population in which 30%-Single and
70%-Married.
Note:
PD – researches and studies
NPD – ensure representativeness
2. Identify the nonprobability sampling
techniques associated with the following
scenarios:
a. John conducted an online survey about
the mostly preferred presidential
candidate.
b. Annie asked some respondents to
suggest other possible participants for the
research.
c. The researcher grouped together the
members of the population into categories
and then chose possible respondents from
each category.