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Kish, Leslie – 1989
A brief, practical overview of "design effects" (DEFFs) is presented for users of the results of sample surveys. The overview is intended to help such users to determine how and when to use DEFFs and to compute them correctly. DEFFs are needed only for inferential statistics, not for descriptive statistics. When the selections for…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Error of Measurement, Mathematical Models, Research Design
