Definition of "subsample" []

• A sample drawn from a larger sample. (noun)
• To take a subsample from (a larger sample). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So the margin of error for the veteran subsample is ± 7.7%."
• "The issue of robustness to exclusion of a subsample is a seperate tool for criticizing the subject and at some point, anyone can exclude examples and change the result for any stats analysis…so be careful here…it may be valid to use this as a robustness test, but is that ALL you’re banking on?"
• "Starting with a survey that went out to 34,500 soldiers and ending with a "subsample" that only had a size of 409, the authors postulate that "there is surprisingly no relationship between child deployment stress and the number of previous deployments"."