Suppose that the sample of students described in the previous section was actually selected using stratified random sampling. In stratified sampling, the study population is divided into ...

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Suppose that the previous student sample is actually drawn from a stratified sampling. The strata are grades in the junior high school: the 7th grade, the 8th grade, and the 9th grade. Within strata, ...