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Aiming for a representative sample: Simulating random versus purposive strategies for hospital selection

BACKGROUND: A ubiquitous issue in research is that of selecting a representative sample from the study population. While random sampling strategies are the gold standard, in practice, random sampling of participants is not always feasible nor necessarily the optimal choice. In our case, a selection...

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Autores principales: van Hoeven, Loan R., Janssen, Mart P., Roes, Kit C. B., Koffijberg, Hendrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26497748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0089-8