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Die Stichprobe
The subset of a population selected for a study. Literally a stab test, from the practice of stabbing into a batch to check it.
Examples in context
Die Stichprobe war leider nicht repräsentativ.
Unfortunately the sample was not representative.
Wir müssen die Stichprobe vergrößern.
We need to increase the sample.
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