The importance of data sources

The importance of data sources#

Learning objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • explain why it is important to have a random sample

  • give an intuitive explanation of selection effects as a missing data problem

  • recognise some common cases of non-random samples

Materials#

Video with English subtitles:

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Video with German subtitles:

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