Sampling

Methods and
Graphs
Created by Gabrielle Rothman, Jessica
Darling, and Madison Baker

National Poll Question

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1606/death-penalty.aspx

Systematic Sampling
We decided to ask people Percent of People in Favor of the Death Penalty
walking into the mall
through the food court
entrance if they thought the
death penalty for someone
No
who's convicted murder
22
Yes
should exist. A total of 60
people were asked. We
38
asked the second person
that came in and then after
that, every third person.

Convenience Sample
Chart Title

For this sample,

Jessica asked 30 of her 16.5
coworkers if they Are
16
in favor of the death
penalty for a person 15.5
convicted of murder? 15
The following data are 14.5
the results.
14

13.5
13

Yes

No

Stratified Sampling
Method for Poll Question
Are you in favor of the death penalty for a person
convicted of murder?
Yes

No

Total

Percentage
Said Yes

Doctors

21

30

70%

Nurses

19

11

30

63%

Certified Nursing
Assistants

17

13

30

57%

Totals

57

33

90

63%

Doctors

We thought it would be interesting to

ask this poll question at a hospital, So
Gabrielle went to work and asked 90
random Staff members the poll question.
30 Doctors, 30 Nurses, and 30 CNAs
were asked whenever she approached
one of each.
Nurses

2; 37%

No; 30%

2; 43%
1; 63%

Yes; 70%

Certified Nursing Assistants

1; 57%

Numeric Sampling
Methods

Simple Random Sample

Every 10th page and every 8th number was called
and asked if they were in favor of the death
penalty for a convicted murder.
Results of Phone Poll
Yes
No
Hung up
No Answer
Total Amount of People
Called
Total amount of
Answered Calls

80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
YES

NO

HUNG UP

NOANSWER

68
32
29
36
165
100

Cluster Sampling Method

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Brown
Totals

Regular
M&M's
54
74
55
88
77
19
367

Peanut Butter
M&M's
27
23
30
22
24
32
158

Regular M&M's Count

Subtotals
81
97
85
110
101
51
525

400
300
Number of M&M's

200
100
0
Red

140 of M&Ms
Number
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Orange

Yellow

Green
Color

Brown Totals

To perform this sampling

method, I listed all the
flavors of M&Ms and
numbered them. Using a
random number generator
I selected the two flavors.
In the store, I grabbed
only the top bags.

160

Red

Blue

Color

Peanut Butter M&M's

180

Orange Yellow Green

Blue

Brown

Totals

Independent Sample
For our independent
sampling had 19
men and 19 women
memorize 5 words:
Cat, House, Fire,
School, and Pillow.
We then waited three
hours and asked
them to remember
as many of the
words as they could.
These were our
results

Number of
Frequenc
Words
y of Men
Remembered

Number of
Frequency of
Words
Women
Remembered

0-1

0-1

2-3

2-3

4-5

13

4-5

15

Standard Deviation = 1.17

Independent Sample
Men

Women
16

14

14

12

12
Number of Women

We can see from

these histograms
that the data is
skewed far to the
right. Meaning
that most of the
people
remembered 4 or
all of the words.

10
Number of Men

10
8

8
6

6
4

2
0

0
0-1

2-3

4-5

Number of Words Remembered

0-1

2-3

4-5

Number of Words Remembered

Independent Sampling
Words Remembered by Women

Min: 1
Q2: 4
Median: 5
Q4: 5
Max: 5

Words Remembered by Men

Min: 1
Q2:3
Median: 4
Q4: 5
Max: 5

Matched Pair Design

Went to the Smiths and stood in front of the Yoplait
yogurt case. I split people into to men and women
and tallied up to see how many men bought low-fat
versus regular and how many women bought low-fat
versus regular
MEN
REGULAR

WOMEN

LOW-FAT

REGULAR

LOW-FAT

36%

48%
64%

52%

Women Men Total

Regular
Yogurt
Low Fat
Yogurt
Total

26

32

58

24

18

42

50

50

100

Time Series Explanation

For the time series, we monitored the gas prices at
a Chevron on redwood. Everyday for two weeks we
looked at the Regular Gas price to see how it
fluctuated. We did not find a huge fluctuation, but
there was definitely a decreasing pattern or a
negative slope.

Time Series Graph

Regular Gas Prices at Chevron for 2 weeks

Gas Prices

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