You are doing research on hospital personnel-orderlies, technicians, nurses, and doctors. You want to be sure you draw a sample that has cases in each of the personnel categories. You want to use probability sampling. An appropriate strategy would be:
A)simple random sampling.
B)quota sampling.
C)cluster sampling.
D)stratified sampling.
E)accidental sampling.

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Stratified Sampling will allow us to divide the hospital personnel into different categories based on their roles (orderlies, technicians, nurses, and doctors) and then draw a sample from each category. This will ensure that we have cases from each of the personnel categories.

You Are Doing Research on Hospital Personnel-Orderlies, Technicians, Nurses, and Doctors