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Principles of survey research: part 5: populations and samples

Published: 01 September 2002 Publication History

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This article is the fifth installment of our series of articles on survey research. In it, we discuss what we mean by a population and a sample and the implications of each for survey research. We provide examples of correct and incorrect sampling techniques used in software engineering surveys.

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Timothy Lethbridge, What knowledge is important to a software professional, IEEE Computer, May 2000.
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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 27, Issue 5
September 2002
56 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/571681
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 September 2002
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 27, Issue 5

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  3. survey methods

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