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Modern Managed Hospitals (MMH) is a national for-profit chain of hospitals. Management wants to survey patients discharged this past year to obtain patient satisfaction profiles. They wish to use a sample of such patients. Several sampling techniques are described below. Categorize each technique as simple random sample, stratified sample, systematic sample, cluster sample, or convenience sample.

(c) Randomly select some MMH facilities from each of five geographic regions, and then include all the patients on the discharge lists of the selected hospitals.

simple random sample

stratified sample     

systematic sample

cluster sample

convenience sample

Explanation / Answer

(c) cluster sample

In cluster sampling, we divide the population into different clusters (here, different regions) and the randomly select a few clusters (here, selected hospitals). So, the sample obtained is a cluster sample.

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