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Oversimple vs Oversample - What's the difference?

oversimple | oversample |

As an adjective oversimple

is excessively simple, especially so because of the exclusion of necessary complexity.

As a noun oversample is

(statistics) an additional sample of a subpopulation, above and beyond the portion of a main sample that already belongs to that subpopulation.

As a verb oversample is

(statistics) to sample additional members of a subpopulation, above and beyond the members included in the main sample.

oversimple

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively simple, especially so because of the exclusion of necessary complexity.

    • oversample

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (statistics) An additional sample of a subpopulation, above and beyond the portion of a main sample that already belongs to that subpopulation.

    • Verb

    (oversampl)
  • (statistics) To sample additional members of a subpopulation, above and beyond the members included in the main sample.
  • (systems) To sample a signal at a frequency well above its Nyquist rate.
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