Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun random_sample

2 senses of random sample

Sense 1
random sample -- (a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected)
       => sample distribution, sample, sampling -- (items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population)

Sense 2
random sample -- (a sample grabbed at random)
       => sample -- (a small part of something intended as representative of the whole)