Representative Sampling, II: Scientific Literature, Excluding Statistics

Abstract

This paper describes and illustrates the meanings of 'representative sample' and 'representative sampling' as used in the extrastatistical scientific literature. Six categories seem adequate to describe these uses. The first five appeared also in the review of non-scientific uses in 'Representative Sampling, I' (Kruskal and Mosteller, 1979). We define and illustrate these in Sections 1-5 of the paper.