stratified sample (redirected from stratified samples)

stratified sample.

See sample.

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sample,

n a selected part of a population that is taken to be representative of the whole population.

sample, random,

n a sample drawn by chance; a sample drawn in such a way that every item in the population has an equal and independent chance of being included in the sample.

sample, stratified,

n a sample derived by dividing the population into a number of nonoverlapping classes or categories from which cases are selected at random, the number of cases selected from each category being proportional to the number therein.