Health Journalism Glossary

Convenience sample

  • Medical Studies

A method of including participants (or data) that are convenient to reach but not randomly selected. It’s a type of “non-probability sampling” because each person does not have an equally random possibility of being selected to participate. Instead, little or no criteria is needed, and people (or data) are chosen because they are easy to reach, geographically convenient, or the first to arrive or show up in a search or at a clinic or study site.

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