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This chapter explains how to use Excel to take a random sample of events or objects from a sampling frame that contains the list of events 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 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 A of this book. An additional practice problem is presented in the Practice Test given in Appendix B along with its answer in Appendix C of this book.
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Quirk, T.J. (2016). Random Number Generator. In: Excel 2016 for Engineering Statistics. Excel for Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39182-3_2
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