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Meanings of representative sample in English

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

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        Examples for "stratified sample"
        Examples for "stratified sample"
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        Design of study: Randomised controlled trial in a stratified sample.
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        Methods: A stratified sample of 184 patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis and age- and sex-matched institutional control subjects were identified.
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        Objective: In 2016, data were collected and analyzed from a nationally representative stratified sample of 816 LHDs.
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        Using this as our sampling frame, we conducted questionnaire surveys with a stratified sample of 1,924 household heads and 945 household heads' wives.
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        Methods: A randomized and stratified sample of 47,979 students from state and private schools of the 27 Brazilian state capitals completed a self-report questionnaire.
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        Usage of representative sample in English
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        Setting: A nationally representative sample of certified internists in the United States.
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        This message recounts a representative sample of speculation, much of it self-serving.
        The Guardian
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        It covered a representative sample of 3 per cent of the coastline.
        The Irish Times
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        These patients are supposed to be a representative sample of your patient population.
        Wired
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        It claims to use machine learning to turn that into a representative sample.
        The Guardian
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        Let's look at a representative sample of the other seventeen Rare Earth factors.
        What does a martian look like?
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        PCI was an important mediator of decreasing mortality in this nationally representative sample.
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        We aimed to examine this relationship using a representative sample of Shanghai adolescents.
        Pubmed
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        If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
        Reuters
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        Methods: Data were available from a representative sample of 4276 adults without diagnosed diabetes.
        Pubmed
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        Participants: A nationally representative sample of 100 US high schools.
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        Setting: A nationally representative sample of the US non-institutionalized population.
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        What could be a representative sample of these different events?
        Reuters
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        Design: A cross-sectional retrospective study in a representative sample of LTCFs conducted in 2015.
        Pubmed
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        This is a broadly representative sample of recent readers' letters, e-mails and online comments.
        The Irish Times
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        The survey was a self-selecting rather than representative sample of the UK's medical workforce.
        The Guardian
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        Representative sample through the time
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