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convenience sample (Удобная выборка (произвольная, акцидентная) включает элементы, которые встретились в соответствующий ... An approach to gathering data that uses a readily available sample group, such as all consumers who visit a store on a given day. In convenience sampling, no attempt is made to use a random sample or a sample that represents a specific subset of the population. Statisticians have a low opinion of convenience sampling. Use this term in a sentence "You may want to use some convenience sampling if you want to get a good feel for how your product will go." "The researchers' study would not be published in the peer reviewed journal, because they only performed a convenience sampling, thus their findings were not reliable." "My boss asked each customer who came to our store how much they liked our product, but I believed this survey was not helpful to us because it was based only on convenience sampling." Read more:  investorwords.com Alexander Demidov) |
