RANDOM SAMPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does random sample mean? 

• RANDOM SAMPLE (noun)
  The noun RANDOM SAMPLE has 2 senses:

1. a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected

2. a sample grabbed at random

  Familiarity information: RANDOM SAMPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANDOM SAMPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("random 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sample grabbed at random

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

sample (a small part of something intended as representative of the whole)

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)