Susanne Muigg wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
> about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
> which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
> quite an extensive literature search in all big Austrian university
> libraries, in international databanks and via Internet.
>
> If you know where I could find something about the pros and cons of
> convenience sampling, please help me!
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "convenience sampling".
There was a large debate back around the 1920s regarding which was a
better method, random sampling or purposive sampling. This debate was
decided to have a clear winner: random sampling, and so, you will
probably not find much in the recent literature on anything other than
random sampling. The only reference I could find in the Encyclopedia of
Statistical Sciences to non-random sampling was to an article which I
don't have access to, but I provide this reference to you in the hopes
that it might help.
Smith, T.M.F. (1976) J. R. Statist. Soc. A, 139, 183-204.
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