representativity

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English

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Etymology

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From representative +‎ -ity.

Noun

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representativity (usually uncountable, plural representativities)

  1. The quality of being representative.
    Synonym: representativeness
    • 2015 August 1, “The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Episode in the Iraqi General Population”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Although weighting strategies were used to optimize the representativity of the general population, it is plausible that our results were biased because persons with a history of mental disorders might have been less likely to participate.

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