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Stratified Sampling; Validity vs Reliability

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What are the benefits of stratified sampling?
Discuss the differences between validity and reliability.

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This solution explains what the benefits of stratified sampling are and discusses the differences between validity and reliability.

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What are the benefits of stratified sampling?

1. Focuses on important subpopulations and ignores irrelevant ones.
2. Allows use of different sampling techniques for different subpopulations.
3. Improves the accuracy/efficiency of estimation.
4. Permits greater balancing of statistical power of tests and of differences between strata by sampling ...

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