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two-stage sampling

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two-stage sampling [′tü ¦stāj ′sam·pliŋ]
(statistics)
Sampling from a population whose members are themselves sets of objects and then sampling from the sets selected in the first sampling; for example, to first draw a sample of states and then to draw a sample of representatives to Congress from each state selected.


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Mean densities and standard errors of scallops were calculated using equations for a two-stage sampling design (Cochran 1977).
Side-by-side comparisons with the six-stage version, however, revealed an approximately 40 percent lower recovery rate of bacteria with the two-stage sampling device, except when the device was sampling dilute concentrations of particles larger than 1 [micro]m.
One way to conduct probability sampling of prostitutes is to take a two-stage sampling approach, in which the first stage consists of sampling locations and time slots from a spatial-temporal sampling frame, and the second stage involves screening and sampling eligible persons at locations and time slots sampled in the first stage.
 
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