• It will then be divided into sample A and sample B and labelled with the relevant number.

    BBC: The drug-busters

  • To get this number in a sample this small is really unusual, and the findings are so far out of the norm.

    NEWYORKER: Offensive Play

  • The sample remains merely a number throughout testing, ensuring the scientists performing the analysis do not know whose they are dealing with.

    BBC: The drug-busters

  • How exactly is 1% a representative sample of anything???? That number is less than any reasonable margin of error for anything other than a MASSIVE sample size!

    FORBES: Beating Up On The Small Gal.

  • The CPI, a number based on a sample (or basket) of goods and services from a sample of sales outlets in a sample of locations for a sample of times, across the country.

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  • Statistically, 33 is a relatively small sample (though it is the best that could be obtained by a small number of investigators in a country at war).

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  • Welsh Bros Ltd, which supplies a number of councils, said a sample of meat had "potentially" tested positive.

    BBC: Beef being put through a mincer

  • In particular, this sensitivity makes the new chips better at searching for strands of DNA. At the moment, such searches require the number of DNA molecules in a sample to be multiplied using a trick called the polymerase chain reaction before there is a decent chance of detecting the target.

    ECONOMIST: Labs on a chip

  • At times this number will comprise the entire sample, a large figure that has been designed to reflect the views of the entire population.

    BBC: Polls: No indication of huge Romanian-Bulgarian influx

  • Despite a small shrinkage in the number of free checking accounts in the sample, this kind of deal is far from gone.

    FORBES: Free Checking Options Fewer, But Not Gone

  • CNN's estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates the sample is about 3 to 4 points more Democratic than the population as a whole, but also about 2 to 3 points more Republican than the population as a whole.

    CNN: Poll: Debate watchers say Obama wins

  • Other factors that contribute to false results are small sample sizes, studies that show weak effects (such as a drug which works only on a small number of patients) and poorly designed studies that allow the researchers to fish among their data until they find some kind of effect, regardless of what they started out trying to prove.

    ECONOMIST: Just how reliable are scientific papers?

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