Administrators at Texas A&M University were interested in estimating the percentage of students who are the first in their family to go to college. The A&M student body has about 52,000 members. The A&M administration is considering a variety of ways to sample students for a survey. For each of these proposed survey designs, identify the problem. 60min a) Publish an advertisement inviting students to visit a website and answer questions. O A. This would be a convenience sample. O B. This would suffer from voluntary response bias. 60min OC. This would suffer from undercoverage. O D. This would suffer from nonresponse bias. b) Set up a table in the student union and ask students to stop and answer a survey. O A. This would be a convenience sample. O B. This would suffer from undercoverage. O C. This would suffer from voluntary response bias. O D. This would suffer from nonresponse bias.

Administrators at Texas A&M University were interested in estimating the percentage of students who are the first in their family to go to college. The A&M student body has about 52,000 members. The A&M administration is considering a variety of ways to sample students for a survey. For each of these proposed survey designs, identify the problem. 60min a) Publish an advertisement inviting students to visit a website and answer questions. O A. This would be a convenience sample. O B. This would suffer from voluntary response bias. 60min OC. This would suffer from undercoverage. O D. This would suffer from nonresponse bias. b) Set up a table in the student union and ask students to stop and answer a survey. O A. This would be a convenience sample. O B. This would suffer from undercoverage. O C. This would suffer from voluntary response bias. O D. This would suffer from nonresponse bias.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

1st Edition

ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Publisher:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability

Section11.4: Collecting Data

Problem 6E

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