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Noun	1.	random sample - a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters sample distribution, sampling, sample - items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
	2.	random sample - a sample grabbed at random sample - a small part of something intended as representative of the whole statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

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