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Sampling (signal processing)
In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal. A common example is the conversion of a sound wave to a sequence of “samples”. A sample is a value of the signal at a point in time and/or space; this definition differs from the term’s usage in statistics, which refers to a set of such values.1
A sampler is a subsystem or operation that extracts samples from a continuous signal. A theoretical ideal sampler produces samples equivalent to the instantaneous value of the continuous signal at the desired points.
The original signal can be reconstructed from a sequence of samples, up to the Nyquist limit, by passing the sequence of samples through a reconstruction filter.
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For example, “number of samples” in signal processing is roughly equivalent to “sample size” in statistics. ↩
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