Here is a list of employees at a small firm that have been “numbered” for convenience:
The following is part of a random number table:
16124 45998 60679 05487 98825 29942 13522 01868 85705 12053
In order to use this random number table to select a sample of 5 employees, you will group the digits into sets of length _____
In a simple random sample, each element of the list is chosen with probability and the previous selection.
Here is the list of employees with their genders added:
The following is part of a different random number table:
52833 72114 18038 63473 88380 33013 86286 84407 66031 39555
We wish to select a separate random sample of size 3 for males and of size 5 for females using this new random number table. This design is called a random sample.