The new results are the first from an ongoing study intended to assess mental health in a representative population sample, balanced for demographics and including people who returned home and those who remain dispersed around the country.
This sentiment was echoed in the report, which stated that only 1.3% of the companies had a female founder, 6.5% had a female CEO, and 20% had one or more female C-level executives, most commonly in sales and marketing roles - accounting for 27% of the total population sample.
Although sampling can also lead to errors if, for instance, the characteristics of the sample group differ from those of the population from which the sample is drawn the errors will be smaller and can be measured more precisely.
It wasn't the rodents, 80% of the sample population, that drew the hook into Huntingdon.
Political inclinations don't always seem to have motivated the sample population in attributing characteristics that lead to a match.
The sample population is also asked whether they recognize an individual and, in the case of the candidates, whether they would consider that person an appealing choice for president.
In a poll, why must there be a clear and accurate link between sample and population?
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.
Making sweeping generalizations about an entire population based on a limited sample is fallacy.
I'm aiming for a nice varied sample of the population, which is why I would love everyone to get involved.
These analyses are based on the assumption that the animals collected represent a randomly selected and thus representative sample of the population.
The Public Services Department is heading up the waste strategy, and is trying to involve as broad a sample of the population as possible.
However, people are unlikely to confess to breaking the law, and tax inspectors do not usually check on a random sample of the population.
In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.
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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.
Instead, they are considering gathering information from the vast, centralised databases held by government, such as tax records, benefit databases, electoral lists and school rolls, as well as periodic polling of a sample of the population.
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The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
If the document sample drawn from the population is too small, the defendant might unwittingly produce far fewer than 80% of the responsive documents due to erroneous calculations resulting from flawed sampling procedures.
It is an efficient way to tease out trends and sentiments by extrapolating information from a relatively small sample group, as long as the sample is representative of the population that you want to learn more about.
From sample surveys, officials estimate the population at the end of 2009 to have been 1.33 billion.
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The survey researchers and statisticians associated with the government were committed to obtaining a representative sample of the U.S. population in order to provide a true reflection of the country.
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So, although there have been controversial cases usually those that have ignored the fact that people from the same ethnic group share particular genetic signatures more often than people drawn at random from the population finding the right signatures in a sample generally does mean you're nicked.
Because the sample isn't representative of the general population, the results don't necessarily apply to young people in general.
At the national level it is easy enough, though expensive, to account for this by surveying CPOs and including them in the sample in proportion to their share of the population.
Roughly 12% of the Chinese sample owned a car with only 0.7% of the population (6% of the automobile purchasers) borrowing money to purchase a car.
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Britain does not have an unusually high proportion of migrants among its population (higher than France and Italy, but lower than the other five countries in the sample).
For clarification the study, per the statement quoted below in the last paragraph, was limited to a sample of individuals referred into comprehensive community mental services and not indicative of the general population of people on the spectrum.
At times this number will comprise the entire sample, a large figure that has been designed to reflect the views of the entire population.
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