Sentences with phrase «larger group you study»

One of the things young statistics students are supposed to learn is that results only count to the degree that your sample is representative of the larger group you study.

Greenfield now has a larger group study in progress — all part of a recent explosion of research on women and alcohol.

Not exact matches

An Aberdeen Group study revealed organizations using democratized methods had 30 percent higher levels of customer retention and revenue increases as large as 55 percent.

In a study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers found that people were much better at processing information about people they had just met if they had large social groups.

Most of those cases were filed this year, according to a study released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobbying group.

Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information comgroup than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information comGroup, a leading global information company.

On a final note, a new study lends additional credibility to the theory of «wisdom of crowds,» which states that large groups of people are smarter and better at analyzing data than an elite few.

A study of American credit card habits revealed that this age group also faces some of the largest amounts of credit card debt.

This was the largest study of angel investment returns ever conducted, analyzing results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 539 individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which investment - receiving companies were acquired, went public, or were closed.

Green Street's Advisory Group studied small and mid-sized REITs to compare return profiles with their larger peers and identify characteristics of the outperformers.

The church Jesus wants has little to do with fundraising, mission's trips, attendance numbers, ministry programs, large - group events, personality cults, best - selling authors, TV and radio programs, stained - glass windows, padded pews, professional choirs, or regularly scheduled Bible studies.

A 2012 Pew Research study revealed that the religious group with the largest surge in the U.S. was, in fact, the one with no religion at all: «Unaffiliated.»

The fastest growing and largest churches in the world are cell - based, with all of the church ministry flowing out of small groupings of people who meet weekly, worshiping together, studying together, praying together and often engaging in highly imaginative service to people in their neighborhoods.

Wallerstein replies that this is a hypothesis - generating study that can lead to further investigations of other groups - such as ethnic groups in which the extended family plays a larger role, or same - sex couples.

Yet, the study of primitive religions shows that, by and large, religion is a group affair, individual experiences notwithstanding.

A recent study of Hispanic churches revealed a consistent pattern among this group (the largest of America's minority groups, one continually replenished by immigrants): Hispanics, whether Catholic or Protestant, tend to be conservative on issues of sexual morality but liberal on issues of the economy and minority rights.

The church bulletin described a large number of small group Bible studies, all led by men.

The study, which is a snapshot of world religions in 2010 and does not show trends, brings to light a unique religious landscape that's defined by a burgeoning Islam, a shifting Christianity and a large group of religiously unaffiliated.

Those two worlds will collide on May 16 when the nation's largest atheist group holds a rally on the steps of the Texas state capitol in Austin to protest proposed changes in the state's social studies curriculum.

Back in January, the Barna Group published the results of large study on this same pornography culture.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

The Gallup study also found that 27 % of Americans age 18 to 29 identified as religious nones, making the age group the largest subgroup in the study.

Steps is an intensive discipleship program that consists of daily Bible study and reflection, one - on - one discipleship, sharing in small groups, and a large - group teaching time.

But if you engage in lots of one - on - one evangelism and large - group evangelism, the Evangelism Study Bible might help provide some clarity to your invitations.

A recent study finding cancer - causing chemicals in products claiming to be «green» or «organic» doesn't surprise the country's largest organic group.

Although these results sound promising, Mathew cautions that more studies on larger groups of people need to be done before he can recommend capsaicin as a definite treatment for cluster headaches.

A study from food research group Technomic has revealed that starters and small plates are set to play a larger part in restaurants as diners» eating habits embrace the urge to snack and share.

In a large study on pesticides in produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruits.

Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles about a peer - reviewed study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.

• A study that followed a large group of U.S. children over 10 years, found that although mothers» depression was related to escalating child behavior problems, this was not the case among children who said their fathers were highly involved in their lives (Chang et al, 2007).

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

A study of a large group of teens, published in the journal Pediatrics, reported that certain muscle - enhancing behaviors by teens may be on the rise, particularly among groups like athletes and kids who are overweight.

A larger study, with randomization to intervention and control groups might help define whether changes were attributable to the intervention, to differences at baseline, or to other influences.

Researchers hope the new study «will establish large - scale test norms and expected ranges of pre-competition scores for this age group, and will further investigate the capacity for K - D scores to capture closed head injury and concussion.»

While I agree that much of the research out there for PRP is less than desirable, I think it important to cite to some studies as a counterpoint which do have large numbers, platelet concentrations and control groups.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

«Kenneth C Johnson and Betty - Anne Daviss's Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America, BMJ 2005; 330:1416 (18 June), found that the outcomes of planned homebirths for low risk mothers were the same as the outcomes of planned hospital births for low risk mothers, with a significantly lower incident of interventions in the homebirth group.»

* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.

But a larger group of studies over the past ten years has proved that women who breastfeed their children past the age of two years actually reduce their chances of contracting pre-menopausal breast cancer by 30 percent.

This also was found in a large, retrospective cohort study of 15,759 nulliparous women even in a group of women whose second stage progressed beyond 4 hours (29).

As the study itself points out, «hearing evaluations have not yet been systematically performed in a large group of children previously exposed to infant sleep machine noise.»

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

The results of our study are also consistent with a large cluster randomized trial25 of breastfeeding promotion in which verbal IQ at age 6.5 years was 7.5 points (one - half of an SD) higher in the breastfeeding promotion group.

It seems as if another study with a larger sample size is warranted — in addition to a study that has a control group in which parents refrain from giving their infants yogurt.

In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.

That is, we found some evidence that small studies (i.e., those with higher standard errors, located to the right of the figure), compared with larger studies, reported larger mean differences in systolic blood pressure between infant feeding groups.

Even as the governor says a long - awaited study is nearing completion, a large group of local officials want the ban to continue.

The ICM study used a panel of 100 floating voters, so while it was much larger than a traditional focus group, it was still more of a qualitative poll than a quantative one.

But local governments and green groups bitterly oppose the measure, citing concerns over reduced payments to their localities and school districts, a lack of comprehensive study and how the program might change under future administrations — all of which would lead to a larger tax burden for local taxpayers.

The research involved 93 members of the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP), which with more than 1,500 registrants is the largest parental history Alzheimer's risk study group in the world.