Discover how to determine the ideal percentage of a population for a representative sample to ensure accurate data analysis with minimal sampling error.

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Recording every individual in a population is impractical, unnecessary, and expensive (Magurran 1988). Instead community ecologists and scientists in general take replicated samples to represent the ...

It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

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