work sampling — See activity sampling … Big dictionary of business and management
sampling — samp‧ling [ˈsɑːmplɪŋ ǁ ˈsæm ] noun [countable, uncountable] STATISTICS the activity of checking a small number of products from a larger number, asking questions to people from a larger number etc, so as to understand better the group as a whole … Financial and business terms
Sampling — may refer to: Sampling (signal processing), converting a continuous signal into a discrete signal Sampling (graphics), converting continuous colors into discrete color components Sampling (music), re using portions of sound recordings in a piece… … Wikipedia
Sampling (statistics) — Sampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference. Each observation measures… … Wikipedia
Sampling (music) — This article is about reusing existing sound recordings in creating new works. For other uses, see Sample (disambiguation). In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a… … Wikipedia
activity sampling — work sampling A technique in which a large number of observations are made over a period of a group of machines, processes, or workers. Each observation records what is happening at that instant; the percentage of observations recorded for a… … Big dictionary of business and management
sampling — the collecting of a sample; a general term used for field work … Dictionary of ichthyology
activity sampling — ➔ sampling * * * activity sampling UK US noun [U] PRODUCTION ► WORK SAMPLING(Cf. ↑work sampling) … Financial and business terms
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem — Fig.1: Hypothetical spectrum of a bandlimited signal as a function of frequency The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem, after Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon, is a fundamental result in the field of information theory, in particular… … Wikipedia
Video sampling — Similar to music sampling, video sampling is the act of appropriating a portion of preexisting video footage (often copyrighted material) and reusing it to create a new video. The legality of video sampling falls under the fair use doctrine in… … Wikipedia