Audit Sampling for Entire Populations
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Provide an example of a situation in which you would use sampling, rather than examining the entire population. Include the following: the sampling technique you would use, the reason that you would use that sampling technique, and the methodology that you would use when conducting your sample.
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Sampling is a very important aspect for the purpose of collecting units from a large population since it becomes a great workload or sometimes impossible to enumerate all the unit of the population. In the following text, an example is elaborated in which sampling is used. Suitable sampling technique and sampling methodology have also been described for the example taken.
Sampling is a process of collecting a subset called sample from a large population, but the sample should be such that it represents the whole population. A sample is a group of units of the population that gives the results, and these results are applied to the whole population; this is the reason that the sample should be representative of the population (Thompson, 2012). It is quite difficult and sometimes impossible to ...
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