Q. estimates based on a representative sample of schoolchildren with Japanese estimates based on an upper-income, heavily urban sample.

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It is also strangely stable: most banks in the sample changed their LIBOR estimates fewer than 30 times, even though they could have done so 182 times.

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If the sample is too small or is not random, then estimates regarding the number of responsive documents contained within the population could be wildly inaccurate.

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The estimates for job creation are drawn from a fairly large sample size.

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Yet, when we survey participants at IMD, which is probably a much-biased sample because of the corporate seniority of the people involved, the estimates of talent under-utilization are shocking.

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Although the findings of the studies are mostly consistent in showing a similar magnitude hazard ratio, estimates of the effectiveness of sipuleucel-T are imprecise due to the relatively small total sample size of the clinical trials, and unmeasurable biases due to potential confounding effects of frozen salvage product and post-progression treatments.

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