Evaluation of engineering data Homework assignment No. 01 Problem No.2 If you wa

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Evaluation of engineering data Homework assignment No. 01 Problem No.2 If you wanted to estimate the mean height of all the students at FIU, which one of the following sampling strategies would be best? Why? Justify. Note that none of EIN-32345 the methods are true simple random samples. 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 phone book.

Explanation / Answer

1) would not be correct because Gym students would be generally outliers in terms of height.

3) would not be good because it is a convenience sampling.

Hence,

2) will be the best technique to estimate the height.

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