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Preventive & Social Medicine (Community Medicine) is a difficult branch to understand ... leave alone the aspect of liking it. Nonetheless, it is an important overarching medical subject encompassing clinical medicine, human behaviour, environment and many more.
Many students keep asking me a lot of exam questions again and again. The aim of this blog is to answer various queries and difficult concepts pertaining to this subject.
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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Q. In random sampling chance of being picked up is:

a. same n known
b. not same n not known
c. not same but known
d. same n not known



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Ans : c

There are two types of random sampling: with replacement and without replacement.

With Replacement:
Sampling is called with replacement when a unit selected at random from the population is returned to the population and then a second element is selected at random. Thus a unit may be selected more than once. There is no change at all in the size of the population at any stage. This is only a theoretical conceptand in practical situations the sample is not selected by using this method.

Without Replacement:
Sampling is called without replacement when a unit is selected at random from the population and it is not returned to the main lot. First unit is selected out of a population of size N and the second unit is selected out of the remaining population of (N1) units and so on.

So the chance of being picked up by the first unit of sample will be 1/ N.
Similarly,
the chance of being picked up by the second unit of sample will be 1/ (N-1)
the chance of being picked up by the third unit of sample will be 1/ (N-2) and so on.


Thus the chance of being picked up is not the same for each unit but is known (Option C)

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