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STRATIFIED SAMPLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stratified sampling mean? 

STRATIFIED SAMPLING (noun)
  The noun STRATIFIED SAMPLING has 1 sense:

1. the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratumplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


STRATIFIED SAMPLING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

proportional sampling; representative sampling; stratified sampling

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

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


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