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I study subpopulation so huge that chi-squares test insists it is not representative. How do I get confidence intervals for my population?

I want to get results about population A. But all I can study is subpopulation C of B, where B is a subpopulation of A (that is, C $\subset$ B $\subset$ A). Each member of A is classified into one of ...
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Measuring representativeness of a (non-random) selection

I am looking for a numerical value that expresses how representative a (non-random in this case) sample from a population is regarding the distribution of a certain attribute. Take for example, the ...
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What is the number of subjects needed to be representative for a small, finite population?

I have been studying an organisation with 58 people with a number of Likert style questionnaires. The data are not random samples but rather incomplete census's. For the 6 questionnaires I managed to ...
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How to check whether a sample is representative across two dimensions simultaneously?

I'm attempting to develop a standardized method to check whether one set of locations are representative of a larger set. In this particular case, I'm attempting to look specifically at their ...