These families "were not a random subset," he said, and had the others been included the gene linkage might have been found.

Hash collisions are practically unavoidable when hashing a random subset of a large set of possible keys.

RANSAC achieves its goal by iteratively selecting a random subset of the original data.

In a case-cohort study, all incident cases in the cohort are compared to a random subset of participants who do not develop the disease of interest.

Rotation forest - in which every decision tree is trained by first applying principal component analysis (PCA) on a random subset of the input features.

As this pool may not be a truly random subset, extrapolations to the whole genome may be of limited value.

In other words, each participant receives a random (or partially random) subset of the items under study.

So defined, a Bernoulli sequence is also a random subset of the index set, the natural numbers .

Only a small and fairly random subset of voters disagreed.

Percolation theory, the mathematical study of random subsets of integer grids.