A transportation researcher is funded to estimate the proportion of automobile tires with an unsafe tread thickness in a small northern state. The researcher randomly selects one month during each of the four seasons for taking the measurements. During each of the four selected months, the researcher randomly selects 500 cars from the list of registered cars in the state and then measures the tread thickness of the four tires on each of the selected cars. What is the population of interest? What is the sampling frame? What biases if any may result from using the data from this study to obtain the estimated proportion of cars with an unsafe thread thickness?

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2022-08-11

A transportation researcher is funded to estimate the proportion of automobile tires with an unsafe tread thickness in a small northern state. The researcher randomly selects one month during each of the four seasons for taking the measurements. During each of the four selected months, the researcher randomly selects 500 cars from the list of registered cars in the state and then measures the tread thickness of the four tires on each of the selected cars.
a) What is the population of interest?
b) What is the sampling frame?
c) What biases if any may result from using the data from this study to obtain the estimated proportion of cars with an unsafe thread thickness?

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Malcolm Mcbride

Malcolm Mcbride

Beginner2022-08-12Added 20 answers

Solution:
a)
The population of interest is all cars in the state.
b)
The sampling frame will be those cars that are in the 4-months and from which sample is taken,
c)
Biases in the study
1.It may happen that not all cars in that region were registered.
2.Those cars that are not registered may have a large proportion of unsafe tire thickness.

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