The Scottish numbers from this ONS sample are too low to register reliably.
The 5% sample was too small to allow a detailed analysis of the treatment patterns of distinct urology groups.
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Some astronomers seemed to think that he and his colleagues had been too selective about the sample of comets they studied.
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.
Two years ago Pfizer reported that six patients in its trial--all former smokers--got lung cancer after using Exubera, though the sample was too small to prove it caused the cancer.
But the sample is a too small to tease out all these differences.
The problem was getting enough people to use the devices, leading broadcasters to complain sample sizes were too small to be reliable.
However, they warn that although they studied about half of all the people known to have contracted vCJD, their sample is still too small to be conclusive.
Aside from the fact that the sample size is far too small to be useful, Dr Wakefield's hypothesis has other problems.
The agency responded that its sample of measurements was too small to be representative and, therefore, a precautionary approach, as per the law, should be taken.
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Press Ganey admits that survey sample sizes sometimes are too small and says a minimum of 30 responses for an ER is necessary to draw meaningful conclusions from its data.
Twitter's sample size was simply too small.
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At the retrial, the court accepted the explanation that O'Sullivan was "too depressed" to provide a urine 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.
All too often a system that worked well for a sample of 20 drivers wouldn't work when scaled up to the whole company.
However, he raises the concern that because violence can be very localised, a sample of 33 clusters really might be too small to be representative.
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.
But the researchers conceded that their sample size, 302 volunteers, may have been too small to detect modest differences and concluded that more study was needed.
But the methodology and sample size are such that you can't be too sure of the Scottish figure.
Sometimes the team executive puts too much faith in a player's college career or in a small sample of a young pro.
Others say the study sample sizes -- about 100 kids in each case -- may be too small to support sweeping conclusions.
Genetic hackers who get a sample of your DNA could use public databases to figure out whose genetic sample they have and then they would know all about the future written in your genes too.
What this exercise ultimately shows is the limitation of small-sample analysis: there have only been 14 different presidents in the last 83 years, which is too small to draw any meaningful inferences.
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