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STA 121 lesson
Use use expert judgement appropriately to solve and interpret a specified problem.
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STA121-T35-L02; Source: T102-103 | Course topic 4
Purposive or judgement sampling deliberately selects units because they meet criteria relevant to the study. Experts or hard-to-find cases may be useful for exploratory understanding. The source mentions informed medical professionals as an example of expert selection; that does not turn their opinions into a probability estimate of a population prevalence. State the selection criteria and the limits of the resulting claims.