| Date: | Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:01:07 -0400 |
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| Reply-To: | Richard Ristow <wrristow@MINDSPRING.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Richard Ristow <wrristow@MINDSPRING.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: a sampling question |
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| In-Reply-To: | <BAY103-F2173797D515D0679FD46B2B0DE0@phx.gbl> |
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At 05:49 AM 7/13/2005, David L Cassell wrote:
>wrristow@MINDSPRING.COM had written,
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>>The only time I did the "k disjoint samples" thing was to generate a
>>sample for a door-to-door survey in a small city. The investigators
>>took for granted (and I saw no reason to doubt) that for any n, the
>>union of the first n 'batches' was a proper simple random sample of
>>the city addresses. It didn't do wonders for anybody's
>>aspirin bills; nobody worried.
>
>I don't think you needed to worry that much. [...Very helpful reply
>elided...]
Thank you!
Richard Ristow
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