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sampling
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In statistics , quality assurance , and survey methodology , sampling is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. Each observation measures one or more ...
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n. 1 the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample 2 a sample 3 (context statistics English) the analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random 4 (context signal processing ...
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n. (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution , sample ] measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying ...
Usage examples of sampling.
Nasal swabs are typically used to determine how far spores have traveled in a specific room or building where the presence of anthrax is suspected or has already been established by environmental sampling.
She was a fine operations astronomer, skilled at sampling the steady stream of data that flowed through the High Energy Astrophysics Center, though a bit too earnest for his taste.
Schuyler Kimball, playboy billionaire, to know the man would never have a woman like this in his employ without sampling her personal wares on a regular basis.
This sampling of people, muddying the halls from Egyptian to Expressionist, had been specially selected for extremes of characteristic.
Garner and Zubov replaced the sampling bottles on Medusa and recalibrated her thermometers, salinometers, and light meters.
He looked up to see if it was still theue wanting to sample it again like a bee sampling the sweet heart of a flower, and his heart staggered in his chest.
As Jacques Bernoulli demonstrated early in the eighteenth century, an isolated event is no harbinger of anything, but the greater your sampling the more likely you are to guess the true distribution of phenomena within your sample.
This requires regular test decryption of a random sampling of encrypted files to make sure the data can be recovered.
I am Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, an alchemist at HDG Enterprizes in Jena, and I would like to invite you to join me in sampling the delicacies my hotel prepared.
As when one has sampled several figures in a chapel and found them commonplace, one is apt to overlook a good one which may have got in by accident of shifting in some one of the several rearrangements made in the course of more than three centuries, so when sampling the chapels themselves, after finding half a dozen running which are of inferior merit, we approach the others with a bias against them.
For sampling the gases in the smokebox of the horizontal return-tubular boiler, a special flue-gas sampler was designed, in order to obtain a composite sample of the gases escaping from the boiler.
Qureshi, and went back to her studies on headspace capture and noninvasive tissue sampling.
It is only after a sense of security in gold parting has been acquired, that the attack of an ore can be profitably accomplished, and even then simple and easy ores should be first taken, passing on to others more difficult, either because of a more complex mineral composition or a difficulty in sampling.
His purple plumes were fully erect, sampling the air flowing over our heads.
He also found that the regular polls, based on samplings, underestimated the opposition to the war among lower-class people.