{"term":{"id":"10057","title":"random sampling","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - random sampling","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.10057","code":"10057","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Sampling in which the sample locations are selected randomly from the whole population.","notes":{"1":"The population defines the kind of quantity of the location. For example, in a time series, the quantity giving the location is time, in QSAR the location is a point in design space."},"sources":["PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 411 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0605)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10057\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10057\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10057\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'random sampling' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.10057","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-08-07T17:14:18+00:00"}}