sampling design
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsampleanddesign
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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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design
noun
uk/dɪˈzaɪn/us/dɪˈzaɪn/
a drawing or set of drawings showing how a building or product is to be made and how it will work ...
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(Definition ofsampleanddesignfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Another methodological strength was the use of a doublesamplingdesignto calculate corrected prevalence figures.
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Thesamplingdesign, for example, covering only 20% of the study area, was obtained by means of transects 1 km wide placed at regular intervals.
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We have thus obtained asamplingdesignwhich is not imposed by us but dictated by the characteristics of the landscape.
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A hierarchicalsamplingdesignwas used to assess the distribution of genetic variation on different spatial scales.
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As is clear from the definition of parasite population and infrapopulation, patterns of variation are advantageously analysed using a hierarchicalsamplingdesign.
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In this study, however, bias should be small given our fine-scalesamplingdesignunless very small fires were common.
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The samesamplingdesignwas used for fitting the smaller transmitters on animals that weighed between 330-550 g (hereafter known as juveniles).
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Future studies should employ asamplingdesignthat specifically seeks out those who typically escape selection through organisations and voluntary participation.
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Clearly, if thesamplingdesignis not accounted for, the precision of the estimates is considerably overestimated.
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In each of the two townships, respondents were selected using a multi-stagesamplingdesign.
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Overall, it must be stated that thesamplingdesignused had a low power to resolve differences between the four habitat types studied.
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Although the survey did not have a uniformsamplingdesign, weights have been applied to compensate for non-response.
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However, this procedure is misleading because it omits consideration of the actualsamplingdesign.
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Thesamplingdesignis a two-stage stratified cluster sampling, by county level for all provinces and residential units for each selected county.
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Each c. 450-ha landscape consisted of randomly assigned plots in a hierarchicalsamplingdesign.
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It should be noted that the methodology used in each of these surveys in terms ofsamplingdesignseems to be weak.
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Spatial autocorrelation andsamplingdesignin plant ecology.
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Oursamplingdesignfocused attention on broad gradients, and in doing so some important components of landscape diversity were excluded.
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Oursamplingdesignwas such that edge plots included trees growing anywhere between 0 and 20 m from the forest edge.
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