Sentences with phrase «reliable in a larger sample»

He was actually more accurate from three than Tatum was in college, but his awful free throw percentage suggests his shots might not be reliable in a larger sample, at least not yet.

Not exact matches

Those processes and others now being used by researchers are more time consuming, less reliable and require a larger sample than the 100 microliters used in the UT Arlington experiments, Schug said.
Rothstein's research has found that such models can yield very different findings for the same teacher from one year to the next, in part because 25 students or so are not a large enough sample size to create a reliable estimate of a teacher's teaching ability.
In some cases, states did participate but the NAEP sample was not large enough to produce reliable results for Hispanic students.
* The reliability of both value - added measures and demographic - adjusted teacher evaluation scores is dependent on sample size, such that these measures will be less reliable and valid when calculated in small districts than in large districts.
As a simple test to see how reliable NASA's adjustments are, we selected a sample of stations from the largest urban areas in the world today.
The new ERSST4 temperature series includes an» (i) an increasing amount of ocean data from buoys, which are slightly different than data from ships; (ii) an increasing amount of ship data from engine intake thermometers, which are slightly different than data from bucket sea - water temperatures; and (iii) a large increase in land - station data...» and «More generally, buoy data have been proven to be more accurate and reliable than ship data, with better known instrument characteristics and automated sampling
There is also the difficulty that the more you zoom in regionally, the larger the overall sample size has to be to produce reliable data.
First, although the sample size of the present study was sufficient (Nagin 2005) for the purposes of the study and comparable to previous studies in this area (e.g., Feng et al. 2008), the findings should be replicated in a larger sample (at least 500) to draw more reliable conclusions.
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