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This chapter explains how to use Excel to take a random sample of people (or objects) from a sampling frame that contains the list of people (or objects) from which you want to take a random sample. You will learn how to use Excel to create frame numbers for generating random numbers, why a set of duplicate frame numbers is important, and the Excel commands needed to sort the duplicate frame numbers into a random sequence. In addition, you will learn how to print out your result so that all of the information fits entirely onto a single page of paper. Three practice problems are given at the end of the chapter to test your Excel skills, and the answers to these problems appear in Appendix 1. An additional practice problem is presented in the Practice Test given in Appendix 2 along with its answer in Appendix 3.
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Quirk, T. (2011). Random Number Generator. In: Excel 2010 for Business Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9934-4_2
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