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Principles of survey research: part 5: populations and samples
Abstract
This article is the fifth installment of our series of articles on survey research. In it, we discuss what we mean by a population and a sample and the implications of each for survey research. We provide examples of correct and incorrect sampling techniques used in software engineering surveys.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kitchenham, B., & Pfleeger, S. L.
- Venue
- ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
- Published
- 2002-09
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 17-20
- ISSN
- 0163-5948 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2167271913
- Cited by
- 329
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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