Question

A researcher studying interactions of nursing home residents schedules 5-minute observations with six periods of observation per hour. What sampling strategy is the researcher using?

	A.	Consecutive sampling
	B.	Quota sampling
	C.	Time sampling
	D.	Event sampling

Answer 1

Answer: Time sampling

Explanation:

Time sampling is an inspecting strategy that includes the securing of delegate tests by watching subjects at various time interims. These time interims can be picked arbitrarily or deliberately.

Time sampling is an examining strategy that includes the securing of agent tests by watching subjects at various time interims. These time interims can be picked arbitrarily or efficiently. In the event that an analyst utilizes orderly time examining, the data acquired would just sum up to the one day and age in which the perception occurred. Interestingly, the objective of irregular time testing is have the capacity to sum up over all seasons of perception. Contingent upon the sort of study being led, either kind of time inspecting can be fitting.

Leeway to utilizing time inspecting is that you pick up the capacity to control the settings to which you'll in the long run have the capacity to sum up. Notwithstanding, time examining isn't valuable if the occasion relating to your examination question happens rarely or capriciously, on the grounds that you will frequently miss the occasion in the brief timeframe time of perception. In this situation, occasion inspecting is more valuable. In this style of testing, the scientist gives the occasion a chance to decide when the perceptions will happen. For instance: if the examination question includes watching conduct amid a particular occasion, one would utilize occasion testing rather than time inspecting.