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random sample

NOUN
sample grabbed at random
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He says his office reviewed a random sample of 220 claims and found 398 violations of state law in roughly half.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

The first thing is, if you're going to have a random sample of people deliberating, you need to have a good random sample.

From Salon Jun. 14, 2025

A completely unscientific random sample suggested Kemi Badenoch was the local favourite.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2024

For comparison, they also analyzed a random sample of Medicaid recipients who had no records in the child welfare system.

From New York Times Apr. 19, 2024

When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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