PROPORTIONAL SAMPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proportional sample mean? 

• PROPORTIONAL SAMPLE (noun)
  The noun PROPORTIONAL SAMPLE has 1 sense:

1. the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum

  Familiarity information: PROPORTIONAL SAMPLE used as a noun is very rare.

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• PROPORTIONAL SAMPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

proportional sample; representative sample; stratified sample

Hypernyms ("proportional sample" is a kind of...):

sample; sample distribution; sampling (items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)