Statistics are often estimated from a sample rather than from the entire population. If the inclusion probability of the sample is unknown to the researcher, that is, a nonprobability sample, naively ...

One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting ...

The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 707-744 (38 pages) Many studies in various countries have found that telephone and internet surveys of probability samples yielded data ...

Comparison of probability (simple random sampling) and non-probability sampling (convenience sampling) methods. R code for simulating a convenient sample, simple random sample, and compare bias and ...

Nonprobability online panels, where the predominant mode of data collection is computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI), account for the vast majority of worldwide survey research that is carried out ...

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