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Principles of survey research: part 5: populations and samples

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes archive
Volume 27 , Issue 5 (September 2002) table of contents

COLUMN: Columns table of contents

Pages: 17 - 20

Year of Publication: 2002

ISSN:0163-5948

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Barbara Kitchenham	Keele University, Staffs, UK
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger	RAND Corporation, Arlington VA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

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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	1	Timothy C. Lethbridge, A Survey of the Relevance of Computer Science and Software Engineering Education, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, p.0056, February 22-25, 1998
	2	Timothy C. Lethbridge, What Knowledge Is Important to a Software Professional?, Computer, v.33 n.5, p.44-50, May 2000 [doi>10.1109/2.841783]
	3	Levy, P.S. and Lemeshow, S. Sampling of Populations: Methods and Applications. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, John Wiley and Sons Inc., Third Edition, 1999.
	4	Janne Ropponen , Kalle Lyytinen, Components of Software Development Risk: How to Address Them? A Project Manager Survey, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.26 n.2, p.98-112, February 2000 [doi>10.1109/32.841112]

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Keywords:
populations, sampling, survey methods

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