sampling unit

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meanings of sampleand unit

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sample
noun[C]
uk /ˈsɑːm.pəl/ us /ˈsæm.pəl/
a small amount of something that shows you what the rest is or should ...
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unit
noun
uk /ˈjuː.nɪt/ us /ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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Examples of sampling unit

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Thus, these small postcode sectors constituted the primary samplingunit.
Each collecting tray is called a samplingunit below.
A one-plant samplingunit gave rise to an intermediate critical line, very similar to that obtained with an eight-plant samplingunit (fig. 1a).
Every plant in the samplingunit was thoroughly examined and the number of larvae was recorded.
The total number of individuals per tree arena was recorded and used as samplingunit.
The central tree was labelled and served as the samplingunit.
Thus, these results stress the relevance of identifying the appropriate samplingunit size.
The size of the samplingunit roughly coincides with the size of the agricultural fields.
The samplingunit was a monolith of 100 x 100 x 40 cm excavated from each quadrat.
In particular, examples that they give are confined to the samplingunit of the human being or the unproblematic household.
Control samples were placed in an identical samplingunit and both units placed in an open pasture environment.
The samplingunit for this study is the fisher with a decision-making role while at sea.
The samplingunit is household and the sample size varies from 10,897 to 25,208, becoming larger in later years.
A group of seeds produced by a single defecation or regurgitation event was the samplingunit in all tests.
The log of the variance was regressed to the log of the mean, by samplingunit size.
As a samplingunit, however, the host tree is only suitable for a small number of ecological experiments.
The size of the vegetation samplingunit used was 20 m2 for woodland and 5 m2 for grassland.
In the above methods for analysis at animal level, the herd was still considered as the primary samplingunit.
Secondly, the sequence of samplingunit sizes does not result in as ordered a sequence of critical lines as it does with small larvae.
The two-plant samplingunit protocol still requires more sampling units than four-plant or larger units but an intermediate number of total plants.
Individual plants received a unique t reatment o r control, and randomly selected flowers from each individual plant represent t he samplingunit.
With small larvae, critical lines calculated with sampling units of 2 to 12 plants are higher the smaller the samplingunit.
Thus, from 4 to 12 plants, the trend is the smaller the samplingunit the more samples and total number of plants required to inspect.
These estimations were applied to the present data to obtain the total expected costs of sampling plans based on different samplingunit sizes.
However, it should be noted that the results obtained in the present work could be affected by the shape and size of the samplingunit used.
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