8.Two-phase Sampling.pptVIP

Chapter8. Two-phase Sampling Question : I f you want to use stratification to choose a sample from a population ,but you know nothing about the population , so you can not divide it correctly , how will you do then ? 8.1 Description of the Technique 8.1A Concept The central concept involves selecting the basic sample of n elements not directly from the population of N elements, but from a preselection of a large sample of nL elements. Ancillary information from the larger preliminary sample of nL elements is used to improve the final sample of n elelments. Two-phase sampling is