Consider the hypothetical example in Fleiss (1981, pp. 6 -7) in which a test is applied to a sample of 1000 people known to have a disease and to another sample of 1000 people known not to have the ...

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, ...

Stratified sampling is used to select a sample that is representative of different groups. If the groups are of different sizes, the number of items selected from each group will be proportional to ...

Producers of infant formula employ comprehensive food safety systems, including product testing to ensure those systems are working. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign finds ...