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A Systematic Approach to Representative Sampling in the Environment Pages: 12 Published: Jan 1996
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View License Agreement Source: STP1282-EB Abstract In environmental sampling, samples are taken for the purpose of solving a problem in a target population. The problem may not be correctly solved if bias is present in the samples, in the measurement of the samples, and/or in the use of the sample data to make conclusions about the population. This paper discusses a systematic approach which considers all these potential sources of bias when attempting to obtain a representative set of samples for making inference about the population. Keywords: Representative sampling, sampling bias, measurement bias, statistical bias, systematic approach Paper ID: STP16562S Committee/Subcommittee: D34.01 DOI: 10.1520/STP16562S ASTM International is a member of CrossRef. | ||