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Tags: commerce
Categories: Economics & Finance
The purpose of sampling is to provide various types of statistical information of a qualitative or quantitative nature about the whole by examining a few selected units. The sampling method is the scientific procedure of selecting those sampling units which would provide the required estimates with associated margins of uncertainity, arising from examining only a part and not the whole.
(read more: http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/modules/dau/stat/data/sample_frm.html)
Synonyms:
sampling statistic
