random sampling

The sample was drawn from a combination of voter-registration-based sampling and random sampling of Virginia phone numbers.

Their paper caught the eye of Chen, then a statistics graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, who was studying the mixing rates of random sampling methods.

We accounted for this by reviewing results by hand to rule out false positives and by estimating our false negative rate using random sampling.

All polls have random sampling error, inherent in relying on a sample of the population.

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But by Wednesday evening there was little in the way of organized protests or random unrest in the area.

He did not shout “God is great,” but his random act served the purposes of ISIS almost as well.

Random House is also covering the legal fees of an innocent man called Barry who was caught up in the storm.

Random House agreed that all future editions of the book will state that “Barry” was a pseudonym.

If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

Firing a random volley, those that lived turned and fled, pursued by the scouts.

The blows stung, and Black Sheep struck back at random with all the power at his command.

At random, I select four names from the printed list, and the new jurors file into the box.

The spot where his random blow had struck still gleamed transparent jet.