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rep·re·sen·ta·tive sam·ple

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stratified sample, representative sample, proportional samplenoun

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

Wikipedia

  1. representative sample

    Samuel Caldwell Sample (August 15, 1796 – December 2, 1855) was an American lawyer and politician who served a single term as a United States Representative from Indiana from 1843 to 1845.

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  1. representative sample

    A representative sample is a subset of a population that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population. It is selected to provide a statistically valid representation of the whole, based on variables like age, gender, socio-economic status, geographical location, etc. A representative sample is critical in statistical research because it allows accurate insights and conclusions about the larger population from studying the sample.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of representative sample in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of representative sample in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of representative sample in a Sentence

  1. Matthew Killingsworth:

    Scientists often talk about trying to get a representative sample of the population, i was trying to get a representative sample of the moments of people’s lives.

  2. Barney Long:

    The top 25 is really a representative sample that has a mixture of interesting species and interesting stories, there's species on there that we think will be found and there's species on there that are very much long shots.

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