We need to know the population number to answer by a percentage.

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Mar 15, 2017
1:45:08pm

swingcat All-American

We need to know the population number to answer by a percentage.

usually sample sizes of 60 are accepted in simple cases.

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swingcat

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I need help figuring out a decent sample size

fattycoug

3/15/17 1:43pm

We need to know the population number to answer by a percentage.

swingcat

3/15/17 1:45pm

let's say 1000

fattycoug

3/15/17 1:47pm

Yeah. Then usually 60 randomly selected samples will do the trick.

swingcat

3/15/17 1:49pm

That's for academic-level standards. If you are doing this just for your own

swingcat

3/15/17 1:53pm

thanks. yeah, i get the concept of lower is less accurate. just want a good

fattycoug

3/15/17 1:55pm

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