Random-sample meaning

Participants Random sample of the adult population of Hamilton, Ontario.

Methodology Stated preference techniques comprising a series of health-related choices were used to elicit the time preferences of a random sample of adults.

Questionnaires were distributed to a stratified random sample of 103 women taken from the social services register, 38 of which were returned.

This is a simple routine; the real problem lies in trying to justify its claim to produce a random sample.

signatoryhodology consisted of a telephone survey of a random sample of 300 lead signatories or Countersignatories in Registered Bodies and Umbrella Bodies.