representative sampling

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   the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum

   Synonymsstratified samplingproportional sampling

   Broadersampling

Questions about representative sampling

What does representative sampling mean?

representative sampling means "the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum".

What is another word for representative sampling?

Close synonyms include stratified sampling, proportional sampling. 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.