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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
undersample .
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Examples
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AA will be much higher turnout and undersamples, some might say, the younger demographic.
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The USA today ad ... over samples whites and undersamples blacks and hispanics in terms of past voter turnout.
Poll: National Race Tightening; McCain's Advantage On Leadership Holding Firm 2009
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But the CPI oversamples department-store purchases and undersamples discount store purchases.
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The cornerstone of the Boskin Commission's findings is sample-selection bias in the construction of the CPI -- that is, the CPI basket of goods oversamples high-inflation goods and undersamples low-inflation goods and goods whose prices are falling.
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