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Sampling

Governments and health organisations track cases of diseases to inform their policy decisions. These can be global cases, or cases in a target group (called the target population). For example, the number of incidences of a particular disease in Scotland, or in 60-79 year olds in Manchester.

Big populations and sampling

Big populations and sampling

  • As a country's population is so large, not everybody can be tested.
  • Instead, we take a sample and assume that the pattern is true for the whole population.
Sampling example

Sampling example

  • If 10 people in a sample of 100 people have a particular disease, 10% of the sample has the disease.
    • We assume that 10% of the population will also have the disease.
  • If the population has 2000 people, then we predict 200 people in the population have the disease.
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