More Soups and Sampling

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Essentially all scientific samples require a minimum sample size

(you need to taste a certain amount of well-stirred soup to know the soup flavor)

Sample size required to estimate a proportion

Sample size for subgroups

Sample size for Simple Random Sampling compared to Stratified, Clustered, or Multistage Sampling

 

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