In being one of the lowest scoring sports in the world, low sample size of success (at least if measured by goals) and the apparent randomness with which it comes makes analysis of the sport perhaps the most difficult of those discussed within conference panels.
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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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Jaime Gahche, main author of the CDC report, and her co-authors analyzed responses from a sample size of 37, 596, using National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys.
For one thing, the sample size of this study is extremely small: one school.
Thus far, over a sample size of just three games, the realignments have helped the Rangers and Dubinsky.
The survey is based on a sample size of 257 respondents, 52% of whom see the economy getting stronger or staying the same.
Block wrote a research paper comparing a sample size of 1, 000.
First, the change of 3% (from 45% to 48%) is not a very significant change unless the sample size of the survey, which is unclear, was sufficiently large.
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The sample size of this project was very small, but the researchers did reach a logical conclusion: they theorize that it takes the brain longer to process the ugly, more-difficult-to-read fonts.
An administration official told CNN the sample size of the annual government survey will be expanded to more than 22, 000 teenagers as the more specific questions about smoking habits are added.
So while the median damage from Category 5 storms has been only somewhat larger in dollar terms than from weaker Category 4 hurricanes, the sample size of the fiercest storms is too small to be useful.
Though the sample size of nine annual periods is statistically small, it is fascinating to see how well The Prudent Speculator has performed with returns north of 30% on average during the supposedly difficult first year!
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Though the sample size of the 6 games Vick has played this year is pretty small and though it may be a bit early to pass judgment, are any of you taking Cutler or Straub over Vick?
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Talent evaluation is tough enough as it is, and given the millions of dollars invested in young athletes in these sports in particular, General Managers want to have a greater sample size of film to review as well as more mature athletes before making these investments.
The London-based Science Media Centre, which assists reporters when major science news breaks, posted an entire page of criticisms, most notably its poor design, the use of tumor prone rodents, the small sample size and the selective presentation of data.
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Marathe believes that with enough of a sample size, teams can better identify trends that reflect when players are more likely to get hurt, and how seriously.
Sample-size containers of face and bath and dish and laundry soap.
So when we start looking at the types of searches, look for question words, a lot of times they are more unusual because of the smaller sample size.
Nearly 7 percent of all traffic in the current-year sample size is mobile, up from 3.4 percent in the first half of 2010.
And anything they do to increase the size of the Internet helps Google, since the math of search dictates that a larger sample gives a better result, yielding more targeted ads.
As is usually the case in studies of this sort, the sample size was small (and therefore not as robust as might be desirable) and the result showed an association, rather than a definite, causal relationship.
The sample size is small, and one of the four cases is the Mannkind inhaler itself in its previous go-around.
Even though the sample card was half of the size of an actual Social Security card, was written in red, and had Specimen written in bold (see above), many people mistakenly thought it was their own Social Security number.
Those results contrast with figures published by authorities in the provincial capital of Guangzhou late last week showing high levels of cadmium in almost half of rice samples tested in local markets a revelation that triggered widespread anger among consumers despite officials' later statements that the sample size was too small and not representative of the city as a whole.
Over the weekend, Guangzhou authorities said the sample size was small, and not necessarily representative of all rice being sold in the city.
The unemployment rate is derived from a separate survey of households, which has an even smaller sample size and thus a wider confidence range.
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 technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
Only two countries, Nepal and Bangladesh, of the 108 countries studied (a greatly expanded sample size from earlier attempts) showed stronger returns in the summer.
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