Learn how representative samples and random samples differ and why combining them minimizes sampling bias for accurate data.

Discover how to determine the ideal percentage of a population for a representative sample to ensure accurate data analysis with minimal sampling error.

For a food manufacturer, there are few things worse than calling for a mandatory food product recall. Food safety is a big deal and food recalls occur much more frequently than we may realize. And we ...

Manual sampling techniques such as hand scoop and spigot sampling are common methods with food and beverage producers and processors. These convenient and low-cost, direct methods are widely accepted ...

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers created the REP-EQUITY toolbox for capturing an equitable and representative sample for health research studies. Research participants are ...

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has conducted NHANES since the early 1960s in order to assess the health and nutritional status of the United ...

Ensuring that clinical tests are not affected by tumor heterogeneity requires a sampling methodology that captures the genomic, proteomic, and cellular diversity of entire solid tumors. However, today ...

Ensuring that clinical tests are not affected by tumor heterogeneity requires a sampling methodology that captures the genomic, proteomic, and cellular diversity of entire solid tumors. However, today ...