oversampling

Examples

• All

• One thousand parents of high school students across the country were surveyed with an oversampling of views from urban minorities.

  Academic text (2011)

• Consequently, an oversampling of women ensured that the sample would be representative of women in the population.

  Academic text (2000)

• For statistical analysis purposes, oversampling of three accreditation regions was necessary.

  Academic text (2002)

• The original sample included 10,752 males and 9,497 females, illustrating the oversampling of women.

  Academic text (1994)

• Because of the complex nature of the ECLS-B sample, all analyses must be weighted to correct for nonresponse, oversampling, and design effects.

  Academic text (2012)

• The general public survey was conducted among a random, nationally representative sample of 1,759 adults, including an oversampling of 1,001 parents of middle and high school students.

  Academic text (2010)

• Blacks and Hispanics were oversampled; weighting was employed in this analysis to adjust for oversampling and other sampling variations.

  Academic text (1999)

• Other limitations included the oversampling of freshmen and sophomores on the SPRU campus, somewhat skewing their sample.

  Academic text (2008)

• To ensure confidentiality as well as adequate sample sizes, oversampling was employed within some of the smaller LMAs—that is, relatively larger proportions of residents of some smaller LMAs have been included in the dataset.

  Academic text (2003)

• To better understand the trends among youth, we applied an oversampling of participants from urban neighborhoods during the research study.

How Representative

representative sampling

• Specialized

1 5.9

stratified sampling

• Specialized

6.5

sampling

• Specialized

20 3.9

random sampling

• Specialized

1 4.0

oversampling

• Specialized

1 6.8

Surface Forms

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