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SAMPLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sampling" is a kind of...):
choice; option; pick; selection (the act of choosing or selecting)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sampling"):
random sampling (the selection of a random sample; each element of the population has an equal chance of being selected)
proportional sampling; representative sampling; stratified sampling (the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sampling" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Domain category:
telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
Synonyms:
sample; sample distribution; sampling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sampling" is a kind of...):
distribution; statistical distribution ((statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sampling"):
acceptance sampling (a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected)
random sample (a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected)
proportional sample; representative sample; stratified sample (the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sample
Context examples:
Any method of selecting a sample in which cases are not chosen by random sampling.
(Nonrandom Sampling, NCI Thesaurus)
About 55 minutes after launch, the asteroid sampling spacecraft separated from the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fueled second stage rocket to fly free.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
The researchers then used a new method, combining finite element modelling and Bayesian nested sampling to estimate the storage timescales.
(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)
The Pharmacology Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators conducting preclinical and clinical studies with analytical and technical pharmacology support in the areas of sample handling and tracking, pharmacokinetic modeling, drug-drug interaction, pharmacodynamics, drug assays, in vitro toxicity assays and molecular analysis of tumor tissue; human safety issues, adverse reactions risk evaluation and management, chemotherapy monitoring; assistance in study design, optimal sampling techniques and data interpretation.
(Pharmacology Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
An international team of researchers from the U.S. and France used a combination of methods to monitor the accumulation of mercury from the atmosphere, performing continuous sampling over a two-year period, including through the Arctic winter.
(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)
Many of the ejected particles are small enough to be collected by the spacecraft's sampling mechanism, meaning that the returned sample may possibly contain some material that was ejected and returned to Bennu's surface.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
The technique used, called sub-sampling by interpolation, only acts to remove the pixelisation and make a smoother image, and it is important to note that the comet's surface features won't be as smooth as the processing implies.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
Only the tiniest sample needs to be provided, which seeps by capillary action from the sampling area to the recognition area, where a particular colour will appear, depending on the concentration of the compound being analysed.
(Scientists design devices to calculate the concentration of potassium in water, of creatinine in urine, or glucose in blood using smartphone technology, University of Granada)
The genome of the Zika virus had already been sequenced in 2016 by the Virology and Experimental Therapy Department of FIOCRUZ in Pernambuco in collaboration with scientists from the University of Glasgow, but human sampling was used back then.
(Brazil scientists find out Culex mosquito can transmit Zika, Agência Brasil)
EXAMPLE(S): A Probability Sample: exclusively random process to guarantee that each participant or population has specified chance of selection, such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratified random sampling, cluster sampling, and consecutive patient sampling.
(Observational Study Protocol Version Sampling Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
