sampling

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Three years ago, Nelligan and his colleagues, working from the backyard of a neighbor of Susan Flores, used soil vapor sampling to detect volatile organic compounds they say may be associated with decomposing human remains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

The inspector-general’s office told MarketWatch that those estimates were based on sampling payments made to beneficiaries in the past two years, though the figures are thought to represent total cumulative underpayments to the beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

A sampling of other improvements that readers crave:

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Because Curiosity only carries about two cups of TMAH, researchers had to carefully plan the experiment and select the best possible sampling site.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

We should all remember that our impressions of others are usually filtered in this way, and that our sampling of people and their moods is not random.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos