A surname.

(analytical chemistry) A fine glass tube used in a laboratory to extract very small samples of chemical liquids and solutions.

(statistics) The error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population.

(statistics) A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for obtaining a sequence of observations which are approximated from a specified multivariate probability distribution, when direct sampling is difficult.

plural of sampling straw

(sociology, statistics) A nonprobability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances.

A technique used to sample benthic invertebrates in a stream, etc., where a net is held underwater and the surrounding substrate disturbed by kicking.

plural of rejection sampling

(computational statistics, numerical analysis) A technique used to generate observations from a distribution by repeatedly sampling an approximation function that bounds the distribution everywhere from above and rejecting the samples based on the quotient of the two functions at the sample's location.

plural of sampling error