Sampling vs Collection - What's the difference?
sampling | collection |
the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample
a sample
(statistics) the analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random
(signal processing) the measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form
(music) a technique for electronically splicing pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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* (William Whewell)
* Dunglison
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
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, title= The activity of collecting.
(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
* (John Milton)
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
As nouns the difference between sampling and collection
is that sampling is the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample while collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.As a verb sampling
is .sampling
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(wikipedia sampling)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* sampling rate * sampling frequencyAnagrams
*collection
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Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- Collections of moisture.
- A purulent collection .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.