probability sample
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprobabilityandsample
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probability
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌprɒb.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌprɑː.bəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the level of possibility of something happening or ...
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sample
noun[C]
uk/ˈsɑːm.pəl/us/ˈsæm.pəl/
a small amount of something that shows you what the rest is or should ...
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Secondly, aprobabilitysampleof 15 households were selected from the urban enumeration areas and 20 households were selected from the rural enumeration areas.
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Theprobabilitysamplewas drawn using a high-risk stratification strategy.
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Aprobabilitysampleof local residents was drawn from government household-registration records.
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Theprobabilitysamplewas drawn using a high risk stratification sampling frame.
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First, it was based on a nationalprobabilitysample.
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Select a nationalprobabilitysampleof the citizen voting age population and question them about some policy domain(s).
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The areaprobabilitysampleexcluded the eight per cent of older persons living in institutions or special settings such as boarding or rooming houses.
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The survey sample is aprobabilitysample, selected in multiple stages without proportional stratification.
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We report results from three attitude surveys, each based on a nationalprobabilitysampleand part of a nascent time series.
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Aprobabilitysampleof 7529 women in the reproductive ages, currently or previously married, was interviewed.
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Our data are not drawn from aprobabilitysample, and therefore normal inferential statistics are not appropriate. 11.
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Indeed, most surveys listed above are theprobabilitysampledifferences and similarities, and patterns of village elections in provinces is much more complex than any cross-national survey study.
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The sample was just under 2,000 people, the normal size forprobabilitysamplesurveys of this kind.
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It is a highly professional survey of opinion based on aprobabilitysamplesurvey.
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Sometimes this involves a random sampling or some other kind ofprobabilitysampleto gain a repsentative sample of the study area.
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However, one can say much less on the basis of a nonprobability sample than on the basis of aprobabilitysample.
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The unweighted survey response rate for thisprobabilitysamplewas 74.8%, and the weighted response rate was 75.5%.
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