Hello. I am trying to come up with a sampling strategy for the
license renewal of substance abuse treatment facilities in Florida.
Part of the criteria for a provider's license renewal is to review a
sample of their facilities' discharged records to see how many items
out of a total all the records combined have, so I am dealing with a
proportion. I have a software program that deals with sampling
proportions already. However, the methodology is further complicated
by the fact that one facilities' records will be divided among a few
or more counselors, which to me violates the assumption of
independence of observations. For instance, one facility may have 48
records and 3 counselors, so there may be 16 records per counselor in
this case or possibly an unequal amount of records per counselor also.
Since the sample sizes are small, ordinarily I would say to sample
the whole facility. However, since several records are completed by
the same person, it would seem only necessary to sample a few records
per counselor. Therefore, I am asking if anyone knows of a software
program that deals with this type of sampling issue (cluster sampling
I believe). Or if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks!
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