The phrase "a representative proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a sample or subset that accurately reflects the characteristics of a larger group.
Example: "The survey included a representative proportion of participants from various age groups to ensure diverse perspectives."
Alternatives: "a typical share of" or "an indicative fraction of".
We need a healthy balance of role models across the media, and advertisers need to find ways to target a representative proportion of the UK population.
Yet IMD says it takes a representative proportion of women at the appropriate level in business.Business also seems to have an image problem with women.
The official expressed concern that the recount and audit would be conducted not by examining every affected ballot box, but by statistical sampling, in which a representative proportion of the ballots are examined and those results used to extrapolate the total.
On any such random day, a representative proportion of participants would have experienced interictal symptoms.
Indeed, there are some notable scientists with sufficiently common surnames that are omitted from our analysis, e.g. Stanley HE and Vogelstein B, but we maintain that the number of profiles analyzed is sufficiently large to include a representative proportion of these elite careers comprising the tail of the productivity and citation impact distributions.
Fifty-five patients with invasive breast carcinoma were selected as a representative proportion of HER2 IHC 2+ cases.
However, they have an advantage over randomized clinical trials in that, unlike randomized trials, which typically exclude 90% of the population at risk so as to avoid influences that might confound unambiguous data interpretation, the large databases include a highly representative proportion of the populations of interest.
After exclusions, a random sample of eligible participants was selected at each practice in order to obtain an approximately 2 1 ratio of Cumbria and London invitees for a more nationally representative proportion of white British invitees.
Quantitative genetic methods use phenotypic data on a large and representative proportion of the population, which have in livestock species typically taken the form of empirical measurement of continuous variables.
Although 2D gels of muscle fibre homogenates do not represent the entire muscle protein complement, optimized electrophoretic procedures can separate a large and representative proportion of key metabolic, structural, regulatory and contractile elements [ 15].
A limitation of this study is that the sample represented a smaller and probably less representative proportion of ambulance professionals than was the case with the other health professions surveyed.
