A Problem of Bias in Scan Sampling
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Anthropological Research
- Vol. 43 (3) , 239-246
- https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.43.3.3630524
Abstract
Instantaneous scan sampling is intended to accumulate data sets large enough to allow quantitative assessments of activity budgets. If all subjects are not continuously visible, group activities may be seriously overrepresented in the sample of observations collected by scans. This paper describes the problem and our solution.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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