sampling
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How to use sampling in a sentence
They’re a sampling, from across the nation, and they’re reported voluntarily.
How COVID-19 Ended Flu Season Before It Started | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | February 4, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightFor publishers that are already mailing goods to customers, adding sampling is an easy fit.
With America still on lockdown, publishers lean into direct mail | Max Willens | February 1, 2021 | DigidayIn other words, the sampling was biased toward larger households.
He also estimates the probability of each candidate’s election by accounting for sampling error in the tracker and other uncertainties.
Don’t Expect To See Any Players Elected To The Baseball Hall Of Fame This Year | Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 25, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightWe had hoped to see the western bumblebee in our sampling, because its numbers have dropped precipitously in our area.
We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril - Issue 95: Escape | John Hainze | January 20, 2021 | Nautilus
More than any other system, random sampling gives you “an exact portrait of the people at large.”
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives? | Michael Schulson | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSortition rests on two rather unique properties of random sampling.
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives? | Michael Schulson | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOverall, the average duration of illness at sampling was nine days.
Did One Liberian Prostitute Give Ebola to Eight Soldiers? | Kent Sepkowitz | October 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor example, Ed explained to me that while a sampling a beat is a well-known device in rap music, he samples colors.
Bam! Pow! Bling! Hip-Hop's History Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment | Daniel Genis | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMinaj dropped her newest single Anaconda on Monday, a Sir Mix-A-Lot sampling ode to her own assets.
Beyoncé’s ‘Flawless’ Lyrics Tease Her Elevator Drama with Jay Z | Amy Zimmerman | August 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairJimmy says the pig just turned on its heel and walked round the garden sampling things and inquiring into them.
In other words, he went over the same ground again with a sampling-pick and a bundle of canvas bags.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteAfter getting rid of most of the superfluous servants, he put on a screen and began sampling the newscasts.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperHere it usually remains open for inspection and sampling till it is sold, when it is bagged.
Textiles | William H. Dooley
British Dictionary definitions for sampling
/ (ˈsɑːmplɪŋ) /
the process of selecting a random sample
a variant of sample (def. 2)
the process of taking a short extract from (a record) and mixing it into a different backing track
a process in which a continuous electrical signal is approximately represented by a series of discrete values, usually regularly spaced
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