random sample

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The pilot, which was carried out by the Public Sector Fraud Authority, the Home Office and HMRC, matched a random sample of 200,000 child benefit records with international travel data.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

In testing blood samples collected from a random sample of 63 adult blood donors, the researchers found that antibodies resulting from a previous infection of swine flu also reacted to the N1 protein in H5N1.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 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

The Berkeley IGS poll was conducted online Jan. 4-8 among a random sample of 8,199 registered California voters, including a weighted sub-sample of 4,470 voters likely to take part in the March 5 primary.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2024

As in the chapters on coincidence and pseudoscience, we see that the desire to filter and emphasize information is at odds with the desire to obtain a random sample.

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