REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does representative sample mean? 

• REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE (noun)
  The noun REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

proportional sample; representative sample; stratified sample

Hypernyms ("representative 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)

 Context examples 

As far as we know, this is the first epidemiological study to investigate the association between triclosan exposure with bone mineral density and osteoporosis in a nationally representative sample from US adult women.

(Common Ingredient in Toothpaste Puts Women at Risk of Bone Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)