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Stratified Random Sampling vs Simple Random Sampling
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[QUOTE="Stephen Tashi, post: 6180099, member: 186655"] This is a very good question. A sample is a set of observations Several samples "result" in several sets of observations, but this doesn't define how a particular numerical value results from those sets of observations. Perhaps you are thinking of the case where we have 3 independent identically distributed random variables ##X_1,X_2,X_3##, each with variance ##{\sigma}^2##. If we define "the result" of ##X_1,X_2,X_3## to be the random variable ##Y = (1/3)X_1 + (1/3)X_2 + (1/3)X_3## then ##\sigma^2_Y = (1/9)\sigma^2 + (1/9)\sigma^2 + (1/9) \sigma^2 = (1/3) \sigma ^2##. In the link you gave, the notation ##"{s_h}^2"## does not represent the ##\sigma^2## in the previous paragraph. A random sample of size 1 taken from the entire population of City h has variance ##{s_h}^2##. The random variable consisting of the mean of the sum of 10 such samples has variance ##{s_h}^2/10##. The Wikipedia article is not well written. It begins by referring to "The mean and variance of stratified random sampling". However "mean" and "variance" are quantities that are defined for random variables. It only makes sense to speak of the mean and variance of a sampling procedure, if there is a universal understanding that the sampling procedure uses a particular random variable. I haven't done a wide survey of articles on stratified sampling, but I did find [URL]https://jkim.public.iastate.edu/teaching/book5.pdf[/URL] In example 5.1 of that text, the random variable associated with stratified sampling is, in the notation of the Wikipedia article, ##\hat{x} = \sum_{h=1}^L N_h \hat{ \bar{x}_h}## while the Wikipedia article apparently deals with the random variable ##\hat{\bar x} = (1/N) \hat{x}##. So, with respect to the including or omitting the constant ##1/N##, there is ambiguity about what random variable is associated with stratified sampling. In the link I gave, you can alter "book5" to "book3" or "book4" to get information about the abbreviations used in "book5". (e.g. "SRS" for simple random sampling and "HT" for Hurwitz-Thompson ) [/QUOTE]
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