You will be required to select two different sampling methods, each method you will choose a random sample of 20 sentences from throughout the book by following the method you selected and count how many words contained in each sentence that was selected per your (random) sampling method. Use two different sampling methods, chosen from simple random sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, or systematic sampling.1. Explain which of your two methods was easier to use and why.2. Of the two methods, you did not use, explain which of them would have been the most difficult to use and why.3. Do you think either of your methods produced biased results? Explain.

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For simple random sampling , you can randomly open the book to any page and pick any sentence randomly from that page. You&#039;ll have to do this 20 times to get your sample sentences.In stratified sampling , the population is divided into subgroups having similar characteristics. This type of sampling helps us get representation from every subgroup. In this case, you can stratify the book into chapters. Let every chapter be a subgroup. From every subgroup(chapter), you can pick any sentence randomly.In systematic sampling, first sample sentence must be chosen randomly and after that sentences must be chosen at fixed intervals. If your book has 100 pages, pick every fifth (100/20)  page and then choose a sample sentence from that page.Cluster sampling is difficult to do for a textbook from which you need just 20 sentences. In cluster sampling, population is divided into clusters and then some of those clusters are selected. If you form clusters of 10 sentences, you can pick 2 clusters. But this is next to impossible. Of these methods, systematic sampling should be the easiest to do as you know the interval at which you&#039;ll have to select the samples. Simple random sampling is also easy to use but it may not give correct representation.Simple random sampling and Systematic sampling are the easiest to use. Stratified is not that difficult here.Cluster sampling would have been the most difficult as explained above.Simple random sampling does not give accurate representation of the entire population so it may produce biased results.

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