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sampling vs proportional sampling

proportional sampling vs sampling

sampling and proportional sampling both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sampling Yes No No No
proportional sampling Yes No No No
As nouns, proportional sampling is a hyponym of sampling; that is, proportional sampling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sampling:
  • sampling: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
  • proportional sampling: the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum
Other hyponyms of sampling include random sampling, representative sampling, stratified sampling.
sampling (noun) proportional sampling (noun)
(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum
measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
Difference between sampling and proportional sampling

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