REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum
   Synonym(s)
   • proportional sample (what does proportional sample mean?)
   • stratified sample (what does stratified sample mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) representative sample is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • sample distribution (what does sample distribution mean?)
   • sample (what does sample mean?)
   • sampling (what does sampling mean?)