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Re: st: How do I demonstrate that a sample is randomly drawn from a population?


From   David Hoaglin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How do I demonstrate that a sample is randomly drawn from a population?
Date   Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:20:17 -0400

Yuval,

You're welcome.

Reweighting the sample may help, but it is not a panacea.  As the
saying goes, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

David Hoaglin

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick and David, thank you very much for your very good advises. The
> idea to weight the sample based on the population sounds great!!!
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