Learn how representative samples and random samples differ and why combining them minimizes sampling bias for accurate data.

Perhaps you saw the headlines this weekend: “Sexting: Just About Everyone’s Doing It,” from Discovery News, or “Online survey finds 8 in 10 adults have engaged in sexting,” from CNN. Wow – that’s ...

LONDON, Nov. 11 (UPI) --Most research looking at how and why people sample information focuses on "confirmation bias," the idea that people self-select information that confirms what they already ...

Discover how sample size neglect impacts statistical conclusions and learn to avoid this cognitive bias studied by renowned experts like Tversky and Kahneman.

Sampling is one of the most important aspects of particle size analysis. If a biased sample is analyzed, a biased particle size distribution will be recorded. The requirement for good sampling not ...

The Journal of Geo-information Science recently published an online article on research led by researcher Lianfa Li and researcher Xiaomei Yang (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ...