Problem No. 1.20p Given If you wanted to estimate the mean height of all student

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Problem No. 1.20p Given If you wanted to estimate the mean height of all students at FIU, which one of the following sampling strategies would Note that none of the methods are true simple random samples. Explicit justification of each answer is required 1. Measure the heights of 50 students found in the gym during basketball intramurals. 2. Measure the heights of all College of Engineering majors. 3. Measure the heights of the students selected by choosing the first name on each page of the campus ph be the best? Why? one book. Solution

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Answer : the correct answer is 3) measure the height of student selected by choosing the first name on each page of campus phone book.

This will generate the most random data possible among the given there options. Option is totally biased as it takes only gym going students into consideration, they will be active set of sample so doesn't generalise well to the entire population.

Also in 2 option only one particular college is selected this will also gives biased result as students in different department may have totally different attributes.

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