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STRATIFIED SAMPLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("stratified 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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