The phrase "comprehensive sample" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a sample that contains a wide range of items or people, such as a survey that focuses on a broad range of topics. For example, "The survey was designed to gather data from a comprehensive sample of the population."
Using a comprehensive sample of 1,137 managers managing 679 CEFs over 1985 to 2010, we test two competing hypotheses.
The panel's terms of reference indicate that 'a final report will be provided to the secretary by mid-2016 covering both better practice and a comprehensive sample of reviews'.
While it lacks representation of things like blogs and social media, it contains a highly comprehensive sample of what we might think of as the traditional media.
While NGS machines are available and simple to operate, there are few systems available that provide comprehensive sample preparation and data analysis workflows to complete the process.
The principle is not confined to individual anecdotes or case studies, but has been borne out in some econometric tests of the determinants of economic performance across a comprehensive sample of countries.
In our new article, "Staggered Boards and Long-Term Firm Value, Revisited," forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, we reconsider the staggered board debate using a comprehensive sample period (1978 2015) and document evidence that suggests the opposite conclusion.
Using a comprehensive sample of U.S. IPOs from 1980 to 2008, consisting of 5,927 IPOs meeting criteria that are common in the empirical IPO literature, we propose and test the M&A anticipation hypothesis.
The aim of the study was to investigate feasibility, self-reported distress and anxiety management strategies during an fMRI experiment in a comprehensive sample of patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia (PD/AG).
Using a comprehensive sample of stock option repricings announced between 2004 and 2009, we find that repricing firms following the restrictive policies of proxy advisors exhibit statistically lower market reactions to the repricing, lower operating performance, and higher employee turnover.
Our results show that appropriately designing adaptive risk-of-failure action triggers required stressing them with a comprehensive sample of deeply uncertain factors in the computational search phase of MORDM.
We first compiled a comprehensive sample of U.S.-listed stocks from 1962-2008.
