PROPORTIONAL SAMPLING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum

Synonyms:

proportional sampling; representative sampling; stratified sampling

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

sampling ((statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study)

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