A recent article in the popular press suggested that Americans have horrible diets and that university students have the worst diets of all Americans. The article had no data to support that claim. Let's imagine that we are gong to conduct a survey study that examines university students' diets. We have a tight budget so we are going to sample from out of the university population of 7,000 students.

a. What is our potential target population?

b. What is our accessible population?

c. What additional characteristics of the population would be of interest to us?

d. If we were going to use simple random sampling, what would we do?

e. If we want to sample representatives from engineering, education, and nutrition what type of sampling would we do?

f. What are the benefits of such sampling?