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- verb To take insufficient
samples whensampling
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Examples
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It tends to undersample those who are out and about, and has a particularly large effect in robopolls, where many respondents hang up when they're busy.
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So did the previous poll oversample Dem/Dem leaners, does this one undersample them, or did party ID really change that much in fairly boring month?
Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues 2009
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This procedure will oversample people in areas of low population density and undersample people in areas of high population density by its very nature.
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October 31, 2004 at 11:43 AM actus, those Fox tracking polls severely undersample Republicans and men on Friday and Saturday.
This is Priceless 2004
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A useful two-step approach is to first undersample a high density of markers to identify individuals with informative recombination breakpoints and then acquire additional sequences for these individuals.
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A useful two-step approach is to first undersample a high density of markers to identify individuals with informative recombination breakpoints and then acquire additional sequences for these individuals.
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Still a weekend poll, which tends to undersample Republicans / conservatives.
Latest Articles 2008
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In most instances, polls oversample Democrats and undersample Republicans.
The Colorado Index Civil Sense 2008
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Since Ras fixes party weights, the undersample effect is miniscule.
Latest Articles 2008
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A useful two-step approach is to first undersample a high density of markers to identify individuals with informative recombination breakpoints and then acquire additional sequences for these individuals.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nathan A. Baird et al. 2008
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