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Creating samples from a well-specified population using a probabilistic method and/or producing random numbers from a specified distribution. As this tag is ambiguous, please consider [survey-sampling] for the former and [monte-carlo] or [simulation] for the latter. For questions regarding creating random samples from known distributions, please consider using the [random-generation] tag.

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What percentage of a population needs a test in order to estimate prevalence of a disease? S...

Of course any sampling is based on the notion that the sampling is truly random. Trying to account for non-randomness in the sample tremendously complicates the situation. … Then you keep sampling until that level of precision is achieved. …
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