stratified sampling

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

   Synonymsrepresentative samplingproportional sampling

   Broadersampling

Questions about stratified sampling

What does stratified sampling mean?

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

What is another word for stratified sampling?

Close synonyms include representative 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.