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REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does representative sampling mean?
• REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING (noun)
The noun REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING has 1 sense:
1. the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum
Familiarity information: REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
proportional sampling; representative sampling; stratified sampling
Hypernyms ("representative sampling" is a kind of...):
sampling ((statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study)
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