A comparison between convenience sampling versus systematic sampling in getting the true parameter in a population: Explore from a clinical database: The Audit Diabetes Control Management (ADCM) registry in 2009

ICSSBE 2012 - Proceedings, 2012 International Conference on Statistics in Science, Business and Engineering: "Empowering Decision Making with Statistical Sciences"

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 499-503

  Bujang, Mohamad Adam ^a,b   Ghani, Puzziawati Ab ^a   Zolkepali, Nur Amirah ^b   Adnan, Tassha Hilda ^b   Ali, Mariana Mohamad ^b   Selvarajah, Sharmini ^b   Haniff, Jamaiyah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b Clinical Research Centre   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

estimate; parameter; population; sample; sample size; sampling technique

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATE; PARAMETER; POPULATION; SAMPLE; SAMPLE SIZES; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84872941721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSSBE.2012.6396615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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