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random sampling
noun
- a method of selecting a sample random sample from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
Word History and Origins
Origin of random sampling1
Example Sentences
The sample was drawn from a combination of voter-registration-based sampling and random sampling of Virginia phone numbers.
Their paper caught the eye of Chen, then a statistics graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, who was studying the mixing rates of random sampling methods.
We accounted for this by reviewing results by hand to rule out false positives and by estimating our false negative rate using random sampling.
All polls have random sampling error, inherent in relying on a sample of the population.
More than any other system, random sampling gives you “an exact portrait of the people at large.”
Sortition rests on two rather unique properties of random sampling.
Belle and I want to make a fast, random-sampling check of Primes and Ops around here.
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