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- noun Plural form of
subsample .
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Just as pollsters ought to get in the habit of releasing the partisan makeup of their samples, including their subsamples of registered and likely voters, they also ought to release the ideological breakdown.
Kristen Soltis: Ideology: Do The Polls Match America? Kristen Soltis 2010
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The margin of error is higher for subsamples within the full sample.
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Just as pollsters ought to get in the habit of releasing the partisan makeup of their samples, including their subsamples of registered and likely voters, they also ought to release the ideological breakdown.
Kristen Soltis: Ideology: Do the Polls Match America? Kristen Soltis 2010
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Just as pollsters ought to get in the habit of releasing the partisan makeup of their samples, including their subsamples of registered and likely voters, they also ought to release the ideological breakdown.
Kristen Soltis: Ideology: Do The Polls Match America? Kristen Soltis 2010
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Readers should be cautioned that smaller exit poll subsamples for minority groups in battleground states carry higher margins of error.
COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010
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Readers should be cautioned that smaller exit poll subsamples for minority groups in battleground states carry higher margins of error.
COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010
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Because any poll based only on listed landline numbers will not have an appropriate demographic sample, the pollster must reweight the results upon the basis of the subsamples, all of which have higher individual margins of error and Zogby appears to have gotten some unusual subsample results.
Poll: McCain Takes National Lead; Even Besting Obama On The Economy 2009
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It would be interesting to see the subsamples in the CNN, but so far I am unable to find anything but their own article.
Obama And McCain Tied In First Poll Since VP Announcement 2009
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Others say that jackknife replication of subsamples can still be used on any sample, even out and out quota samples, to determine the variability within the data and therefore provide good measures of statistical error on any sample.
In Terms of ROI: How Are We To Judge Research? - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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Imagine taking the sample of one poll and dividing it into two subsamples one of one third of the original sample and one of two thirds of the original sample.
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