proportional sample

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

   Synonymsstratified samplerepresentative sample

   Broadersample distribution

   statistics

Questions about proportional sample

What does proportional sample mean?

proportional sample means "the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum".

What is another word for proportional sample?

Close synonyms include stratified sample, representative sample. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.