In observational research, a behavior of interest might occur only intermittently. If an investigator wanted to estimate the frequency of the behavior by taking a snapshot at random times, the approach would involve

a. time-point sampling.
b. cluster sampling.
c. continuous real-time sampling.
d. time-interval sampling.


A

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