Edexcel S2 2002 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2002
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeExplain sampling frames and units

\begin{enumerate} \item The manager of a leisure club is considering a change to the club rules. The club has a large membership and the manager wants to take the views of the members into consideration before deciding whether or not to make the change.
  1. Explain briefly why the manager might prefer to use a sample survey rather than a census to obtain the views.
  2. Suggest a suitable sampling frame.
  3. Identify the sampling units. \item A random sample \(X _ { 1 } , X _ { 2 } , \ldots , X _ { n }\) is taken from a finite population. A statistic \(Y\) is based on this sample.