Dietary patterns associated with fall-related fracture in elderly Japanese: a population based prospective study.
Making sweeping generalizations about an entire population based on a limited sample is fallacy.
The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
The strengths of the Swedish study reviewed here include the large population based prospective cohort design along with the long period of follow up to validate the composition of the kidney stones.
The head of the panel said all the large environmental population based studies done in the VSD were en effect useless, but as bad as they were they were an improvement the other two the Denmark studies.
At Intel, we track health reform in 22 countries, and we see a global trend toward collective payment paying groups of providers to manage the health of a population based on value rather than volume of procedures.
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Of Kiribati's 33 islands, 21 are inhabited -- though most of its population is based in the Gilbert Islands.
This type of harm can only be detected through population-based surveillance after drug approval, when large numbers of people are being treated.
The agency cited another study, a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention population-based report, that estimated acetaminophen was the likely cause of most of the estimated 1, 600 acute liver failures each year.
Dr Boerma reviewed the results of population-based general-health surveys similar to Kenya's that were carried out in Zambia and Mali, and also a study based on saliva samples that was carried out in South Africa.
There were some population adjustments based on more recent Census data that make the change from December to January confusing, but apparently labor force drop-outs did not account from the large decline in the unemployment rate.
The population figures are based on mid-year population estimates for 2000.
The differences were not weighted by population size, based on the assumption that differences in the distribution of resources matter regardless of the size of the population.
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First and foremost, enterprises should start by researching their user population and creating policies based on that.
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Under the Electoral College system, each state is worth a certain number of electoral votes based on population.
Scots ministers said a new formula for allocating funding was based on population density, meaning areas like the Highlands would be particularly badly hit.
Well the Barnett formula is infamously based on population, not need.
EU, which are based on population, and on their relative poverty.
Some sort of limit on annual spending, perhaps based on population plus inflation like the old Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) in Colorado, also could be successful.
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Since the number of Electoral College votes is based on population, it is worth understanding what has happened in Ohio that explains their loss of two electoral votes.
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Based on population and GDP at purchasing-power parity the new G8 would be formed by Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia and the United States.
We're not just handing it out based on population.
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The Washington, DC-based nonprofit Population Reference Bureau projects that, by 2050, 70 percent of the world will inhabit cities, with most of this growth occurring in underdeveloped countries whose limited resources may exacerbate an already difficult situation.
Labour says its calculations, based on pupil population estimates, show around 14, 545 teachers are needed.
Again, the Census determines -- the Census based on obvious population shifts determines reapportionment and representation in Congress.
The report proposes that Scotland should have a shareholding in the Bank of England, based on its population share of nearly 10%.
Each state is given a number of votes based on its population.
The 1990 census gave it 25 Electoral College votes because based on its population it had 23 members in the House of Representatives and the constitutionally mandated two U.S. Senators.
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Based on the population figures released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Feb. 25, and population information from Wisconsin and Michigan, it appears likely the goals will be met this spring.
The UN calculates a population's human capital based on its average years of schooling, the wage its workers can command and the number of years they can expect to work before they retire (or die).
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