SAMPLING THEORY IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
The literature of current sociological research shows conspicuously few studies that make careful use of any accepted theory of sampling. This situation seems to be due partly to difficulties in imposing the severe requirements of a mathematical sampling theory upon the complex and uncontrolled prob...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 67 - 75 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct37
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