SAMPLING Sampling is a statistical procedure that is concerned with the selection of the individual observation; it helps us to make statistical inferences about the population. In sampling, we assume that samples are drawn from the population and sample means and population means are equal. A population can be defined as a whole that includes all items and characteristics of the research taken into study. However, gathering all this information is time-consuming and costly. We therefore make inferences about the population with the help of samples. There are two branches in statistics, descriptive and inferential statistics. Of these two main branches, statistical sampling concerns itself primarily with inferential statistics. The basic idea behind this type of statistics is to start with a statistical sample. After we have this sample, we then try to say something about the population. We very quickly realize the importance of our sampling method. There are a variet
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