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    REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    proportional sample; representative sample; stratified sample

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    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)

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