MEANING
A smaller sample selected from cases that already belong to another sample.
Use it for
describing analysis restricted to part of an observed sample; distinguishing a second-stage selection from the target population; explaining how a robustness check uses fewer observed casesIdentifies selected observations within an existing sample, not every member of a population subgroup. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- a random subsample
- a subsample of respondents
- subsample analysis
On the page
The researchers interviewed a subsample of survey respondents in greater depth.
Results for the employed subsample do not automatically describe all employed people in the population.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- subsample
Usage notes
Countable: subsample, subsamples. Sub-sample is a hyphenated variant. Register: technical. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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