probability sampling
type: Concept
broader: sampling

statistics, research methods, and measurement
type: Concept
narrower: sampling

external validity
type: Concept
broader: sampling

internal validity
type: Concept
broader: sampling

representativeness
type: Concept
broader: sampling

statistics
type: Concept
narrower: sampling

law and society research
type: Concept
narrower: sampling

conceptual foundations of GIS
type: Concept
narrower: sampling

research design
type: Concept
narrower: sampling

data collection
type: Concept
narrower: sampling

purposive sampling
type: Concept
broader: sampling

sampling
type: Concept
narrower: item sampling
narrower: probability sampling
narrower: external validity
narrower: snowball sampling
narrower: internal validity
narrower: random sampling
narrower: parameters
narrower: sampling error
narrower: representativeness
narrower: representative sample
narrower: purposive sampling
broader: conceptual foundations of GIS
broader: data collection
broader: statistics
broader: law and society research
broader: statistics, research methods, and measurement
broader: research design
definition: Sampling is the selection of a given number of units of analysis (people, households, firms, etc.), called cases, from a population of interest. Generally, the sample size (n) is chosen in order to reproduce, on a small scale, some characteristics of the whole population (N) Sampling is a key issue in social research designs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods; Sampling]

item sampling
type: Concept
broader: sampling

representative sample
type: Concept
broader: sampling

methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: sampling

parameters
type: Concept
broader: sampling

random sampling
type: Concept
broader: sampling

snowball sampling
type: Concept
broader: sampling

sampling error
type: Concept
broader: sampling