Establishing Qualitative Geographic Sample Size in the Presence of Spatial Autocorrelation.
Sample size is a crucial feature of all research projects, especially affecting generalizability and manipulation or control in quantitative studies and transferability and discovery in qualitative studies. Selecting a minimum number of observations helps ensure the adequacy of a sampling strategy....
| Publicado en: | Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 103; no. 5; pp. 1107 - 1123 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=89890962&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 89890962 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00045608 AAG jtl: Annals of the Association of American Geographers issn: 00045608 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep2013 vid: 103 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 89890962 10.1080/00045608.2013.776884 ppf: 1107 ppct: 16 formats: tig: atl: Establishing Qualitative Geographic Sample Size in the Presence of Spatial Autocorrelation. aug: au: Griffith, DanielA. affil: School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas su: Qualitative research Sample size (Statistics) Autocorrelation (Statistics) Probability theory Geographical research sug: subj: Qualitative research Sample size (Statistics) Autocorrelation (Statistics) Probability theory Geographical research keyword: qualitative sampling design sample size spatial autocorrelation autocorrelación espacial autocorrelación espacial diseño de muestra cualitativo diseño de muestra cualitativo tamaño de la muestra tamaño de la muestra qualitative sampling design sample size spatial autocorrelation autocorrelación espacial autocorrelación espacial diseño de muestra cualitativo diseño de muestra cualitativo tamaño de la muestra tamaño de la muestra ab: Sample size is a crucial feature of all research projects, especially affecting generalizability and manipulation or control in quantitative studies and transferability and discovery in qualitative studies. Selecting a minimum number of observations helps ensure the adequacy of a sampling strategy. In general, sample sizes for quantitative studies tend to be relatively large, whereas those for qualitative studies tend to be relatively small, highlighting a trade-off between breadth and depth. An inadequate sample size (i.e., too small or too large) can undermine the soundness of research findings and waste resources for either research tradition. Quantitative studies employ probability sample designs whose most important features derive from randomness, whereas qualitative studies employ nonprobability sample designs whose most important features derive from some predetermined purpose. In both cases, time and resources are important factors in determining sample size, as is representativeness either in terms of a mirror image subset of a parent population (quantitative) or diversity and scope of a sample (qualitative). The respective goals of sample size determination are to control sampling error effects (i.e., Type I and Type II hypothesis testing errors) and to minimize chances of discovery failure. Various scholars already have addressed impacts of spatial autocorrelation on sample size determination, especially in frequentist-based quantitative studies. But to date, little is known about the impacts of spatial autocorrelation on qualitative geographic research in general and on sample size determination for qualitative studies in particular. This article addresses this problem. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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