Samplingisastatisticalprocedurethatisconcernedwiththeselectionofthe
individualobservation;ithelpsustomakestatisticalinferencesaboutthe
population.
Insampling,weassumethatsamplesaredrawnfromthepopulationandsample
meansandpopulationmeansareequal.Apopulationcanbedefinedasawhole
thatincludesallitemsandcharacteristicsoftheresearchtakenintostudy.
However,gatheringallthisinformationistimeconsumingandcostly.We
thereforemakeinferencesaboutthepopulationwiththehelpofsamples.
Therearetwobranchesinstatistics,descriptiveandinferentialstatistics.Of
thesetwomainbranches,statisticalsamplingconcernsitselfprimarily
withinferentialstatistics.Thebasicideabehindthistypeofstatisticsistostart
withastatisticalsample.Afterwehavethissample,wethentrytosay
somethingaboutthepopulation.Weveryquicklyrealizetheimportanceofour
samplingmethod.
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