On 23 Oct 2003 07:34:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Renee) wrote: > 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.
But the people you are dealing with are unlikely to have a statistician on hand. What they will have -- if this follows the other examples that I have heard of -- is a state regulation that spells out, in detail, what is required and what is allowed. > 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. [ snip, rest] If the usual assumption, or a common one, is that there is only *one* counselor at a facility, then the usual Facility *does* meet that criterion (or the several criteria together, if there are several) for each counselor. I suggest that you should be safe, if you meet what they ask -- per facility? -- for each counselor. If they don't have details written out, for some lesser standard for you to meet, with your three counselors -- then there is nothing else that you can do that *should* be convincing, that I can think of. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
