The phrase "a sample of likely" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a sample that is likely representative of a larger group or phenomenon, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "We collected a sample of likely candidates for the position, but we need to narrow it down further."
Alternatives: "a sample of probable" or "a sample of potential".
Last week, pollsters from Monmouth University asked a sample of likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire whether it was more important to them that a candidate "shares your values" or "can win the White House".
The researchers who carried out the Fox News and CNN/ORC polls, which both showed the race to be closer, didn't specify what screens they used in gathering a sample of likely voters in the Democratic caucus, but they were probably a good deal looser than those applied by Loras College.
LV indicates a sample of likely voters.
The question is, whether these approaches are really the best for problems like docking or RNA folding, where you may want optimal solutions or a sampling of likely solutions.
The group cautioned the study was not a "census," but a sampling of "likely consumers".
In an effort to isolate a sample of students likely to be most affected by the policy change, we predict which students would have a high likelihood of sending an SAT score to either Berkeley or UCLA.
We keep the top quartile of predicted score-senders to generate a sample of students likely to be most affected by Prop 209. Figure 4 Density of predicted score-sending.
Purposive sampling [ 17] was used to obtain a sample of people likely to be frequent users of herbal medicine i.e. white, British females aged 18 years and above [[ 1] and [ 14]].
While every poll should strive to get a representative sample of likely voters, many fail.
Plus or minus 3 or 4 percentage points are the figures commonly posted for this error in an overall sample of "likely voters".
Last year, for example, after a teenager shot dead ten people in and around a Minnesota high school, pollsters asked a sample of Americans how likely it was that a similar massacre might occur in their own town.
