sampling unit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsampleandunit
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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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unit
noun
uk/ˈjuː.nɪt/us/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition ofsampleandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsampling unit
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Thus, these small postcode sectors constituted the primarysamplingunit.
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Each collecting tray is called asamplingunitbelow.
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A one-plantsamplingunitgave rise to an intermediate critical line, very similar to that obtained with an eight-plantsamplingunit(fig. 1a).
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Every plant in thesamplingunitwas thoroughly examined and the number of larvae was recorded.
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The total number of individuals per tree arena was recorded and used assamplingunit.
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The central tree was labelled and served as thesamplingunit.
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Thus, these results stress the relevance of identifying the appropriatesamplingunitsize.
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The size of thesamplingunitroughly coincides with the size of the agricultural fields.
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Thesamplingunitwas a monolith of 100 x 100 x 40 cm excavated from each quadrat.
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In particular, examples that they give are confined to thesamplingunitof the human being or the unproblematic household.
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Control samples were placed in an identicalsamplingunitand both units placed in an open pasture environment.
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Thesamplingunitfor this study is the fisher with a decision-making role while at sea.
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Thesamplingunitis household and the sample size varies from 10,897 to 25,208, becoming larger in later years.
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A group of seeds produced by a single defecation or regurgitation event was thesamplingunitin all tests.
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The log of the variance was regressed to the log of the mean, bysamplingunitsize.
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As asamplingunit, however, the host tree is only suitable for a small number of ecological experiments.
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The size of the vegetationsamplingunitused was 20 m2 for woodland and 5 m2 for grassland.
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In the above methods for analysis at animal level, the herd was still considered as the primarysamplingunit.
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Secondly, the sequence ofsamplingunitsizes does not result in as ordered a sequence of critical lines as it does with small larvae.
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The two-plantsamplingunitprotocol still requires more sampling units than four-plant or larger units but an intermediate number of total plants.
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Individual plants received a unique t reatment o r control, and randomly selected flowers from each individual plant represent t hesamplingunit.
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With small larvae, critical lines calculated with sampling units of 2 to 12 plants are higher the smaller thesamplingunit.
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Thus, from 4 to 12 plants, the trend is the smaller thesamplingunitthe more samples and total number of plants required to inspect.
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These estimations were applied to the present data to obtain the total expected costs of sampling plans based on differentsamplingunitsizes.
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However, it should be noted that the results obtained in the present work could be affected by the shape and size of thesamplingunitused.
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