Block wrote a research paper comparing a sample size of 1, 000.

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The studied sample size in the paper was relatively small, so it will have to be replicated before the practice can be used.

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Some remarkable research by our sister paper, Financial News, found that in a sample of eight of the biggest investment banks and investment banking divisions of universal banks, the compensation paid over the past five years amounted to 2.6 times the pre-tax profits earned.

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But Roger Bate of the American Enterprise Institute, in a paper published in July, found that 7% of such drugs in his sample failed.

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In a 1998 Journal of American Medical Association paper, Drummond Rennie, an editor at JAMA, and his colleagues found that 11% of a sample of articles published in six major medical journals had been authored or co-authored by someone who is not listed among the writers.

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