The effectiveness of increasing sample size to mitigate the influence of population characteristics in haphazard sampling

Auditing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 169-185

  Hall, Thomas W ^a   Herron, Terri L ^b   Jo Pierce, Bethane ^a   Witt, Terry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit sampling; Haphazard sampling; Sample selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040675564     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2001.20.1.169     Document Type: Article

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