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This paper presents the results of a limited investigation which brings into focus the difficulties encountered in developing exact distribution-free methods for stratified simple random sampling. It ...

True experiments, unlike anecdotal evidence, often require random sampling and random assignment. In this post, I try to explain the importance of random sampling; in my next post, I will explore ...