Talk:Stratified sampling/Archive 1

thank you!
Thank you so much for this wiki! you have just saved me and my GCSE's! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dipifipi (talk • contribs) 14:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

Style Query
The "Choice of sample size for each stratum" Section is a how to, not facts. See the section for the specific info box.

Have fun!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.174.244.54 (talk) 16:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

The Article is Fine As-Is; The Heart of the Notion is Given in the Practical Example section
There are no problems with the article in tone or opinion. The section showing the how-to "Practical example" is the heart of the notion of what stratified sampling means. The how-to is, in other words, CENTRAL to the concept. This is not a political article; so there should be no political debate.

The side issues in the article still lie within the realm of the ideas concerning purposeful reflecting in one's sample with various weightings the distinct groups which comprise the whole population that is being targeted in one's study.

In my work, which I am ill-advised to disclose, I am doing what I was calling "proportionally random" sampling. A statistical technical support person with JMP software called what I was doing stratified sampling. For each _____ (time period), I sample from all the ______ (items) we receive, so many of each ______ (property) level. The so-many samples of each level differs for each _______ (source) that supplied the items such that the proportions of the property levels reflects those property levels of all the items received from that source. Thus having been "proportionally random sampled" based on the one property, the sampled items are tested for a host of other properties. Though more vague, this is the same kind of thing as the surveying of the male/female full/part-time employees that the article gives as an example. I said I had one property of various levels. In fact, in my work there are really two properties too -- just like the gender and full/part-time in the article's example; I just simplified because my description was already vague (due to censoring).199.196.144.16 18:37, 31 July 2007 (UTC)199.196.144.13 (talk) 18:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)