In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. In statistics, sampling is the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.
This tag should be used for questions related to programming solutions related to sampling.
Sampling can be done for functions varying in space, time, or any other dimension, and similar results are obtained in two or more dimensions. More information in Wikipedia - sampling (signal processing).
For statistical sampling, see Wikipedia - sampling (statistics) for more.
