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PROPORTIONAL SAMPLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum
Synonyms:
proportional sampling; representative sampling; stratified sampling
Classified under:
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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