A simple random sample is a subset of a statistical population where each member of the population is equally likely to be chosen.

Researchers choose simple random sampling to make generalizations about a population. Major advantages include its simplicity and lack of bias.

Learn how simple random sampling works and what advantages it offers over other methods when selecting a research group from a larger population.

Visualizing a simple random sample: Simple Random Sample of Lotto Balls This applet animates the random sampling of lotto balls. The population size can be set anywhere between 1 and 144. Users can ...

The results obtained by the authors so far on controlled sampling with equal probabilities and without replacement have been consolidated in this paper in an integrated fashion. Utilizing these ...

Simple Random Sampling The method of simple random sampling (METHOD=SRS) selects units with equal probability and without replacement. Each possible sample of n different units out of N has the same ...