representative sample

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

   Synonymsstratified sampleproportional sample

   Broadersample distribution

   statistics

Questions about representative sample

What does representative sample mean?

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

What is another word for representative sample?

Close synonyms include stratified sample, proportional 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.