A population with parameters for ratio, ordinal, and nominal measurement scales was created by conducting a telephone survey within a community. Out of this population, simple random samples were created and map coordinate samples were drawn by generating random degree lines that radiated out from the center of the community and that included the households adjacent to these degree lines in the sample. With these two methods, ten random samples were generated, five using the simple random method and five using the map coordinate samples. Ten samples of four variables should yield one to two statistics with 95% confidence intervals that do not contain the parameter. This occurred only once.
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