Question

If you wanted to estimate the mean height of all the students at UW Madison, which one of the following sampling strategies would be best? Why? (Note that none of the methods are true simple random samples.) (a) Measure the heights of 100 students found in the gym during basketball intramurals. (b) Measure the heights of the engineering majors. (c) Measure the heights of the students selected by choosing the first name on each page of a list of students enrolled that semester.

Answer 1

Solution:

If you wanted to estimate the mean height of all the students at UW Madison, which one of the following sampling strategies would be best? Why?

Answer: (c) Measure the heights of the students selected by choosing the first name on each page of a list of students enrolled that semester.

Because the option a and b focus on particular sections of the students and they would not represent the population correctly. The option c would represent the population correctly.