Need to expand subsample of species lengths

[rshanaghan]

Not sure if this issue is tough, or if I'm missing something obvious. I work on a scientific fishing vessel, and its my job to obtain lengths for all species we catch. For the particularly dense species, I only measure subsamples of 30 individuals. The problem is, to analyze this data, I need to expand this subsample, to represent the whole catch. I know the size of the whole catch, but not all the lengths. My question, is whether there is a way to use my data set of 30 entries to create the entire data set, which in some cases exceeds 500 individuals. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Ryan

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