sample vs representative sample

representative sample vs sample

sample and representative sample both are nouns.

sample is a verb but representative sample is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sample	Yes	No	Yes	No
representative sample	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, representative sample is a hyponym of sample; that is, representative sample is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sample:

sample: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
representative sample: the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum

Other hyponyms of sample include acceptance sampling, random sample, proportional sample, stratified sample.

sample (noun)	representative sample (noun)
a small part of something intended as representative of the whole	the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

sample (verb)	representative sample (verb)
take a sample of

Difference between sample and representative sample

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