He looked at a large sample of public-school children who were asked to name their friends.
Business Week comes up with its rankings by polling a large sample of students and companies that recruit them.
This covers a large sample of completed sales which have gone through with a mortgage, which means cash sales are not included.
Using a large sample of subsidiaries listed in Japan between 1980 and 2005, we find that the experience of NEC Electronics is not unique.
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Thinking it might be the (poor) quality of the data, we obtained a large sample of similar data from a different source: supplier contracts.
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"To help people like my sisters, there needs to be a large enough sample of people who contribute genomic information so we can draw statistically significant inferences, " says Mr. Wilbanks.
She pulled out a large photographic blowup of a brain-tissue sample.
The book compared that list with a sample of 100 large traditional firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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There has been only one study using a large randomized sample, objective measures of well-being, and reports of grown children rather than their parents.
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Green Street Advisors, an independent research firm in Newport Beach, Calif. that specializes in REIT stocks, has gone through this exercise for 70 large REITs, a sample of which are shown in the table below.
Just as many sciences seek to understand large populations by analyzing a smaller representative sample of a population, the Bolshoi simulation focused on modeling a hypothetical representative volume of the universe.
"With such a large, totally random sample, we are assured of equal representation of age, income, ethnicity, and a certain percentage of households from each state, " he says.
Check this out: 1, 000 fold magnification of sub-cellular details of a sample and the sample can be as large as 200 gigabytes.
At times this number will comprise the entire sample, a large figure that has been designed to reflect the views of the entire population.
First, the change of 3% (from 45% to 48%) is not a very significant change unless the sample size of the survey, which is unclear, was sufficiently large.
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