Sampling from a large, not independent dataset

So I’m building a simple regression model to predict fuel consumption for trucks in a large food company. We have data from different trips from different routes.

Some routes have much more trips and are thus over represented in the data. Let’s say as an example that we have 10 routes, with 8 routes having 10 individual trips and 1 route having 1000 trips. If I would just randomly sample the data most of the data would come from the …

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