HyperDic: stratified_sample

English > 1 sense of the expression stratified sample:
NOUNcognitionstratified sample, representative sample, proportional samplethe population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum
English > stratified sample: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningThe population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum.
Synonymsrepresentative sample, proportional sample
CategorystatisticsA branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
Broadersample distribution, sample, samplingitems selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

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