For Problems #1 through #10, choose one and only one of the following sampling techniques that best fits each sampling scenario.If necessary, explain to justify your answer.

1. cluster sampling
2. convenience sampling
3. judgment sampling
4. network sampling
5. quota sampling
6. simple random sample
7. snowball sampling
8. stratified sampling
9. systematic sampling

Record your response to item #1 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director surveys random samples of part-time and full-time associates, having divided the employees according to employment status and noting that an employee cannot be both full-time and part-time, whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

a.response (a):cluster sampling

b.response (b):convenience sampling

c.response (c):judgment sampling

d.response (d):network sampling

e.response (e):quota sampling

f.response (f):simple random sampling

g.response (g):snowball sampling

h.response (h):stratified sampling

i.response (i):systematic sampling

Record your response to item #2 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director surveys random samples of employees at randomly selected stores, noting that each store contains the full gamut of employees (i.e.,a complete microcosm of the store-based workforce), whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

1. a.response (a):cluster sampling
2. b.response (b):convenience sampling
3. c.response (c):judgment sampling
4. d.response (d):network sampling
5. e.response (e):quota sampling
6. f.response (f):simple random sampling
7. g.response (g):snowball sampling
8. h.response (h):stratified sampling
9. i.response (i):systematic sampling

1. Record your response to item #3 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director surveys the first fifty employees to punch in at the company's flagship store on a given day, whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

1. a.response (a):cluster sampling
2. b.response (b):convenience sampling
3. c.response (c):judgment sampling
4. d.response (d):network sampling
5. e.response (e):quota sampling
6. f.response (f):simple random sampling
7. g.response (g):snowball sampling
8. h.response (h):stratified sampling
9. i.response (i):systematic sampling

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director surveys a sample of associates recommended by the director of human resources as employees who have a good understanding of the corporate culture within the company, what sampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

a.response (a):cluster sampling

b.response (b):convenience sampling

c.response (c):judgment sampling

d.response (d):network sampling

e.response (e):quota sampling

f.response (f):simple random sampling

g.response (g):snowball sampling

h.response (h):stratified sampling

i.response (i):systematic sampling

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The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director surveys every 10th store employee when all are listed alphabetically in company records, whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

1. a.response (a):cluster sampling
2. b.response (b):convenience sampling
3. c.response (c):judgment sampling
4. d.response (d):network sampling
5. e.response (e):quota sampling
6. f.response (f):simple random sampling
7. g.response (g):snowball sampling
8. h.response (h):stratified sampling
9. i.response (i):systematic sampling

Record your response to item #6 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director surveys sales associates chain-wide according to the following specifications: 30 cashiers, 25 from apparel departments, 20 from house wares and appliances, 15 from the garden centers, and 10 from the pharmacies, whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?Ultimately, the assistant director optsnotto pursue this particular sampling technique as it is viewed as inferior.

a.response (a):cluster sampling

b.response (b):convenience sampling

c.response (c):judgment sampling

d.response (d):network sampling

e.response (e):quota sampling

f.response (f):simple random sampling

g.response (g):snowball sampling

h.response (h):stratified sampling

i.response (i):systematic sampling

Record your response to item #7 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; as part of these efforts, the assistant director for human resources decides to survey some of the company's associates.If the assistant director gathers a samples of store employees by selecting associate numbers using the random number generating function from a handheld calculator, what sampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

1. a.response (a):cluster sampling
2. b.response (b):convenience sampling
3. c.response (c):judgment sampling
4. d.response (d):network sampling
5. e.response (e):quota sampling
6. f.response (f):simple random sampling
7. g.response (g):snowball sampling
8. h.response (h):stratified sampling
9. i.response (i):systematic sampling

Record your response to item #8 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; in particular, the assistant director for human resources is exploring options for health care management and support services offered to cancer survivors and relatives on staff.The assistant director personally knows a survivor who in turn nominates several other survivors and relatives to self-disclose and participate.These other individuals then nominate others for inclusion in the sample, and the pattern continues.The sample grows in this ever-expanding multidimensional manner by word-of-mouth, with each new participant discretely and confidentially recommending to several others that they voluntarily consider stepping forward, until a sufficient number of subjects are identified.Whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

1. a.response (a):cluster sampling
2. b.response (b):convenience sampling
3. c.response (c):judgment sampling
4. d.response (d):network sampling
5. e.response (e):quota sampling
6. f.response (f):simple random sampling
7. g.response (g):snowball sampling
8. h.response (h):stratified sampling
9. i.response (i):systematic sampling

Record your response to item #9 here:

The management team at Palisades Pet Parade, a chain of retail stores specializing in supplies and food for companion animals, is reviewing employee benefits for its store associates; in particular, the assistant director for human resources is exploring support services and counseling in the workplace as accommodations when employees with Tourette syndrome manifest symptoms that interfere with or impair work function.The assistant director contacts a patient who has self-disclosed, who then refers a counselor, who then refers a medical specialist, who then refers a patient advocate, who encourages another patient to step forward voluntarily.The referral chain continues in a rather linear manner that includes individuals who aren't potential participants but simply sources of additional referrals until a sufficient number of participants have been identified.Whatonesampling techniquebestmatches this scenario?

1. a.response (a):cluster sampling
2. b.response (b):convenience sampling
3. c.response (c):judgment sampling
4. d.response (d):network sampling
5. e.response (e):quota sampling
6. f.response (f):simple random sampling
7. g.response (g):snowball sampling
8. h.response (h):stratified sampling
9. i.response (i):systematic sampling

Record your response to item #10 here:

Finally, ignoring the separate scenarios previously described, which of the nine sampling techniques listed on the previous page is arguably thebestchoice to consider when planning any experiment because it is probabilistic in nature and democratically involves every potential subject or participant without partitioning the population into subgroups?

a.response (a):cluster sampling

b.response (b):convenience sampling

c.response (c):judgment sampling

d.response (d):network sampling

e.response (e):quota sampling

f.response (f):simple random sampling

g.response (g):snowball sampling

h.response (h):stratified sampling

i.response (i):systematic sampling