Sentence examples for a form of sampling from inspiring English sources

The 'information hypothesis' offers a functional explanation for CFL, suggesting that it is a form of sampling to gather information that may be useful in future foraging attempts (Bean, Mason, & Bateson, 1999; Forkman, 1996; Inglis & Ferguson, 1985).

The estimation of the length of the span of life from observed data is a form of sampling from a large but incomplete population.

Mugenda and Mugenda (1999) describe purposive sampling as a form of sampling where the researcher relies on his or her expert judgement to select units that are representative of the population.

The second concern is that it is often the therapist who selects the sessions to be rated, a form of sampling that is highly likely to be biased.

CE has been combined with patch clamp recording as a form of sampling to introduce specific compounds to the patched cell.

Then there is Eliot's use of different voices in his work, and of demotic phrases then unfamiliar to poetry's hallowed portals – even going so far as to include gobbets of nursery rhymes and so forth, as an early form of sampling.

Criterion sampling – a form of purposive sampling – was used to select participants (19).

SPMD sampling is a form of passive sampling that can be used for water, air or sediments.

A form of purposive sampling known as snowball sampling was used to gain access to men who had undergone penile cutting, inserts or associated practices.

In countries with obligatory schooling, representative samples of children of school age can be obtained by selecting all, or a random sample, of the pupils of a representative sample of schools (a form of cluster sampling).

Due to the exploratory character of the study and the resulting inductive interaction between theory and empirical material, the sampling was not a form of theoretical sampling as defined by Silverman [24].