Your criminal justice class requires a study of the success of your state's drug courts. The professor suggests that you first select 10 counties from your state. From those 10 counties, you will select the two largest cities from each. Finally, the drug courts in each of the cities will be monitored to measure success. What type of sampling design did your professor suggest?

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The sampling design suggested by the professor involves selecting counties (which can be considered as clusters) and then selecting the largest cities from each of those counties. This is an example of multistage cluster sampling, where the sampling units are selected in stages. There is no stratification involved in this design, as all units within a selected county are treated equally.

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