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Consider the hypothetical example in Fleiss (1981, pp. 6 -7) in which a test is applied to a sample of 1000 people known to have a disease and to another sample of 1000 people known not to have the ...

Suppose that the sample of students described in the previous section was actually selected using stratified random sampling. In stratified sampling, the study population is divided into ...