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Sample A group of things - events, objects, people, etc. - selected from a larger population.
To enable good generalizations to be made a sample should be both fair and relevant. Fair in that it is sufficient in size, and relevant in that it is representative (see below).
(see also: statistic, Law of large numbers, Margin of error, sample bias, selection bias)
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