sampling vs selection

selection vs sampling

sampling and selection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sampling	Yes	No	No	No
selection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, selection is a hypernym of sampling; that is, selection is a word with a broader meaning than sampling:

sampling: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
selection: the act of choosing or selecting

Other hypernyms of sampling include choice, option, pick.

sampling (noun)	selection (noun)
(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study	the act of choosing or selecting
measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)	the person or thing chosen or selected
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population	a passage selected from a larger work
	an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
	a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

Difference between sampling and selection

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