RANDOM SAMPLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does random sampling mean? 

• RANDOM SAMPLING (noun)
  The noun RANDOM SAMPLING has 1 sense:

1. the selection of a random sample; each element of the population has an equal chance of being selected

  Familiarity information: RANDOM SAMPLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANDOM SAMPLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The selection of a random sample; each element of the population has an equal chance of being selected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("random sampling" is a kind of...):

sampling ((statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "random sampling"):

lucky dip (a selection or decision purely at random)

 Context examples 

Any method of selecting a sample in which cases are not chosen by random sampling.

(Nonrandom Sampling, NCI Thesaurus)

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)