"random sample" meaning in English

See random sample in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: random samples [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} random sample (plural random samples)
  1. (statistics) A sample randomly taken from an investigated population. Wikipedia link: random sample Categories (topical): Statistics Translations (sample): mostra aleatòria [feminine] (Catalan), 隨機抽樣 (Chinese Mandarin), 随机抽样 (suíjī chōuyàng) (Chinese Mandarin), náhodný výběr [masculine] (Czech), aselecte steekproef (Dutch), satunnaisotos (Finnish), échantillon aléatoire [masculine] (French), Zufallsstichprobe [feminine] (German), τυχαίο δείγμα (tychaío deígma) [neuter] (Greek), campione aleatorio [masculine] (Italian), 確率標本 (kakuritsuhyōhon) (alt: かくりつひょうほん) (Japanese), amostra aleatória [feminine] (Portuguese), muestra aleatoria [feminine] (Spanish), slumpmässigt urval [neuter] (Swedish), alisagang halimbagay (Tagalog), mẫu ngẫu nhiên (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-random_sample-en-noun-lSoV1AC1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for random sample meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "random samples",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "random sample (plural random samples)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Statistics",
          "orig": "en:Statistics",
          "parents": [
            "Formal sciences",
            "Mathematics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sample randomly taken from an investigated population."
      ],
      "id": "en-random_sample-en-noun-lSoV1AC1",
      "links": [
        [
          "statistics",
          "statistics"
        ],
        [
          "sample",
          "sample"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(statistics) A sample randomly taken from an investigated population."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "statistics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mostra aleatòria"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "隨機抽樣"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "suíjī chōuyàng",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "随机抽样"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "náhodný výběr"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "aselecte steekproef"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "satunnaisotos"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "échantillon aléatoire"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Zufallsstichprobe"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "tychaío deígma",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "τυχαίο δείγμα"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "campione aleatorio"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かくりつひょうほん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kakuritsuhyōhon",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "確率標本"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "amostra aleatória"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "muestra aleatoria"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "sample",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "slumpmässigt urval"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "alisagang halimbagay"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "sample",
          "word": "mẫu ngẫu nhiên"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "random sample"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "random sample"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "random samples",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "random sample (plural random samples)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Statistics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sample randomly taken from an investigated population."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "statistics",
          "statistics"
        ],
        [
          "sample",
          "sample"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(statistics) A sample randomly taken from an investigated population."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "statistics"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "random sample"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mostra aleatòria"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "隨機抽樣"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "suíjī chōuyàng",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "随机抽样"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "náhodný výběr"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "aselecte steekproef"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "satunnaisotos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "échantillon aléatoire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zufallsstichprobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tychaío deígma",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "τυχαίο δείγμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "campione aleatorio"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かくりつひょうほん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kakuritsuhyōhon",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "確率標本"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amostra aleatória"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muestra aleatoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sample",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "slumpmässigt urval"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "alisagang halimbagay"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "sample",
      "word": "mẫu ngẫu nhiên"
    }
  ],
  "word": "random sample"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.