Across
- 4. Sampling ___________ is the proportion of elements in the population that are selected to be in a sample.
- 5. Someone well versed in the social phenomenon that you wish to study and who is willing to tell you what he or she knows.
- 6. Sampling ___________ is a list or quasi-list of units making up a population from which a sample is selected.
- 7. __________ sampling is any technique in which samples are selected in some fashion not suggested by probability theory; meaning that it does not involve random selection of participants.
- 8. A form of error that is systematic, meaning there is some pattern of a mistake, which produces unrepresentative results.
- 12. A type of nonprobability sampling in which researchers select the units to be observed on the basis of their own judgment about which participants will be the most useful or representative.
- 14. That aggregation of elements from which a sample is actually selected. (two-words)
- 15. A type of nonprobability sampling in which units are selected into the sample on the basis of pre-specified characteristics, so that the total sample will have the same distribution of characteristics assumed to exist in the population being studied.
- 18. ___________ selection is a sampling method in which each element has an equal chance of selection independent of any other event in the selection process.
- 20. ___________ sampling is the general term for samples selected in accordance to probability theory, typically involving some random selection mechanism.
- 21. A sampling principle used in qualitative studies that encourages adding cases until new insights are unlikely.
- 22. Probability ___________ to size (PPS) sampling.
- 26. A nonprobability sampling method often employed in field research whereby each person interviewed may be asked to suggest additional people for interviewing.
Down
- 1. Sampling __________ is the standard distance (k) between elements selected from a population for a sample.
- 2. A type of probability sampling in which the units composing a population are assigned numbers. (two-words)
- 3. Any difference between reported results and true scores.
- 4. That quality of a sample of having the same distribution of characteristics as the population from which it was selected.
- 9. The grouping of the units making up a population into homogeneous groups (or strata) before sampling.
- 10. People who provide information about themselves, allowing the researcher to construct a composite picture of the group those individuals represent.
- 11. A procedure employed in connection with sampling whereby units selected with unequal probabilities are assigned weights in such a manner as to make the sample representative of the population from which it was selected.
- 13. A multistage sampling approach in which natural groups (clusters) are sampled initially, with the members of each selected group being subsampled afterward.
- 16. The theoretically specified aggregation of the elements in a study.
- 17. Sampling ___________ is an element or set of elements considered for selection in some stage of sampling.
- 18. A type of probability sampling in which every kth unit in a list is selected for inclusion in the sample.
- 19. A selection of members from a population.
- 23. A form of error where mistakes are equally likely.
- 24. All members of a population.
- 25. The unit of which a population is composed and which is selected in a sample.