random sample

Noun
  1. A sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected (synset 106036311)
    referred to in: 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
    is a type of: sample, sample distribution, sampling - items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
  2. A sample grabbed at random (synset 105830867)
    referred to in: 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
    is a type of: sample - a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

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