Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Representative sampling and random sampling ...

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Sampling is a technique in which samples are drawn at random (without any favor or bias). For this, suitable measures or procedures may be laid down and adopted according to the nature and ...

Recording every individual in a population is impractical, unnecessary, and expensive (Magurran 1988). Instead community ecologists and scientists in general take replicated samples to represent the ...