The sample remains merely a number throughout testing, ensuring the scientists performing the analysis do not know whose they are dealing with.
To get this number in a sample this small is really unusual, and the findings are so far out of the norm.
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!
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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It will then be divided into sample A and sample B and labelled with the relevant number.
At times this number will comprise the entire sample, a large figure that has been designed to reflect the views of the entire population.
But the number of companies in the sample with no women on their boards increased by 22% to 33 in 2009, from 26 the year before.
Once the sample set had been gathered, the 521 number was reached by comparing states of decay.
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Welsh Bros Ltd, which supplies a number of councils, said a sample of meat had "potentially" tested positive.
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.
Because the sample of households is small relative to the total number of households, the series is notoriously volatile.
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Despite a small shrinkage in the number of free checking accounts in the sample, this kind of deal is far from gone.
The number that see themselves as aggressive in this sample is also significant at 36 percent, which is more than double the percentage from our 2011 survey.
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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.
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).
While Paranjape's study found that women with the highest levels of abuse reported having poor health, the same number of diseases were reported among those women as the women in the sample who had less or no abuse.
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.
Albert Esteve of the Autonomous University of Barcelona reckons that the total number of cross-border marriages among 25-39-year-olds in his sample was about 12m in 2000.
The sample is likely to grow: In 2012, when labor talks delayed the season and dramatically reduced the number of days off once it began, five NBA players suffered ACL injuries, up from an average of less than 3.5 over the last decade.
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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.
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