Imagine that you are planning to estimate the average book price at your college bookstore. The bookstore carries 13,000 titles, but you plan to sample 200 of them. You will select the books and record the price of each book. Based on this information, answer all of the following questions.
- What is the sample in this study, and what is the population of interest?
- How might you collect a simple random sample of books?
- How might you collect a stratified random sample? (What would your strata be?)
- How might you collect a convenience sample?
- How might you collect a systematic random sample?
- How might you collect a cluster sample?
- How might you collect a quota sample?
