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The smallest units into which the population can be divided are called the elements of the population, and groups of these elements are called clusters. A cluster may be a class of students or cultivator fields in a village. When a sampling unit is a cluster, the procedure of sampling is called cluster sampling. Cluster sampling is a sampling technique in which the entire population of interest is divided into clusters, and a sample of these clusters is selected by the SRSWOR technique.
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Latpate, R., Kshirsagar, J., Kumar Gupta, V., Chandra, G. (2021). Cluster Sampling. In: Advanced Sampling Methods. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0622-9_5
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