Multistage sampling is a complex form of cluster sampling. Cluster sampling is a type of sampling which involves dividing the population into groups (or clusters). Then, one or more clusters are chosen at random and everyone within the chosen cluster is sampled. Using all the sample elements in all the selected clusters may be prohibitively expens...
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Type of sampling in which the
sample is selected by stages, the sampling units at each stage being subsampled from the larger units chosen at the previous stage.
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http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacglossary/glossarym.html
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