What is "representative sample"

Usage examples of "representative sample".

If an army marched on its stomach, Mallory thought, this one wasn't going to get very far: he had heard that the food situation with the Partisans was close to desperate, but, if this were a representative sample, the Cetniks and Germans appeared to be in little better case.

If the final phase of each experiment is observing a representative sample of the spacefarers under controlled conditions, it makes sense that the octos are here also.

Pointing a telescope at any patch of sky constrained sufficiently to signify direction should still capture a representative sample of them, which should display a spread of aberration displacements accordingly.

Vornan had by now seen about as much of the United States as was deemed a representative sample, and the itinerary called for him to go abroad.

Assuming that Omega Three is a representative sample of their computer technology, their computers had an even lower degree of self-awareness than that of Comp Cent prior to the mutiny.

While Middle America watched and a representative sample of it put questions to bona fide aliens, an army of reporters battled with hard-pressed security men and plainclothes police in the hallway outside the studio.

The courier he had just docked was no more than a fairly representative sample of Cheng's extensive fleet, and probably not recognizable as belonging to the tycoon.

He'd promised at least a dozen colleagues back home a representative sample each.

The primordial atmosphere also differed considerably from the gas cloud out of which it condensed, it wasn't just a representative sample of what was around.

I don't mean a representative sample, such as one of each variety or all found in one given gum machine.

If this was a representative sample, Roman thought, that claim was an accurate one.

I thought the idea was to take a small representative sample and leave the rest for the ages—.