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sample [′sam·pəl] (science and technology) Representative fraction of material tested or analyzed in order to determine the nature, composition, and percentage of specified constituents, and possibly their reactivity. (statistics) A selection of a certain collection from a larger collection.
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| The technician collected a sample adjacent to, but not overlapping, the area reportedly sampled by the subject. It is difficult because the population tends to be highly variable, requiring a larger sample to drive the sampling variability to anywhere near 10 percent and it is expensive and intrusive to make a determination about the qualifying activity for each sampled project or employee, making it costly to achieve large samples. After a patient in Connecticut died from inhalational anthrax on November 19, the center was sampled again on November 21 and 25 by using dry and wet swabs. |
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