oversample

Examples

• All

• Of the 403 respondents in the Black oversample, 40% were male and 60% were female.

  Academic text (1999)

• The sample consists of two parts: a cross-sectional sample and an oversample of Blacks and Hispanics.

  Academic text (1999)

• Most of the military oversample was dropped from the survey after 1984, and the low-income white oversample was dropped after 1990.

  Academic text (2017)

• The oversample of minority children to reach an appropriate number of African American and Latino children in a predominantly white state was a plus.

  Academic text (2012)

• An additional oversample of 403 individuals who described their own race or ethnicity as Black or African American was also recruited.

  Academic text (1999)

• The survey also included a supplemental oversample targeting the Asian subpopulation, which was designed to support more precise estimates for the Asian population of the United States.

  Academic text (2006)

• We invited a random sample of 2,498 adults aged 18 years or older to participate (including oversamples of Blacks and Hispanics).

  Academic text (2011)

• This yielded a total of 3,432 completed interviews, 3,159 of which were from the cross-sectional sample, with the remaining 273 from the oversample.

  Academic text (1999)

• Interviews were completed with 403 (369 totally completed, 34 partially completed), yielding a response rate for the oversample of 63.1%.

  Academic text (1999)

• In the recent study, researchers conducted an oversample of 500 respondents to ensure accurate representation of minority groups.

Synonyms

O

oversampling

vsoversample

• Specialized

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Selecting more people from a small group in a study to get better data about them

is the extra observations gathered to increase that subgroup's representation or accuracy

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology