The DNR is planning a study to determine whether breakwaters help decrease erosion at a large lake. They divide the shoreline in
to 100-foot plots, installing some with breakwaters and some without. However, the east and west shorelines of this lake receive very different wave patterns due to the wind. The DNR suspects this will affect the responses to the breakwaters. Because of this, the DNR plans to treat each shoreline as a different group. This study is an example of: (A) An uncontrolled experiment(B) A blocked design experiment.(C) A matched pairs experiment.(D) A stratified random sample(E) A randomized observational study
A stratified random samples are samples that involves the use of stratified random sampling (or stratification) which involves the partition or division of a population into smaller subgroups (called strata). The division is done based on some shared characteristics and attributes. The case above is a stratified random sample because it involves the division of shoreline(population) into 100-foot plots(stratas or subgroups).
