REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

proportional sample; representative sample; stratified sample

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("representative 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)

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