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I am choosing participants to call for a telephone survery of campus drinking patterns. If I get a list of all the students on campus, and select every 10th student to call have I chosen
a. Population
b. Simple random sampling
c. Systematic random sample
d. Representative sample
I feel that this is c. Am I in the ballpark?

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Sampling method for a telephone survey is identified.

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Answer: c. Systematic random sample
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Systematic sampling is a method of random sampling in which elements to be sampled are selected from the population at ...

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