Sentences with phrase «representative of the population»

After the sample has been chosen and the survey conducted, researchers apply their secret sauce: weighting, or adjusting the data to be representative of the population being surveyed.

Each sample is representative of a population aged 18 to 64 years (except for Mexico and Turkey, where the survey included anyone over 18, and in China, where the surveyed population was aged 18 to 55 years old).

This suggests that women taking part in the study were not representative of the population being studied.

In fact, her campaign's failure despite a sophisticated online strategy may have been foreordained, since as Gobry pointed out, French Internet users aren't representative of the population as a whole.

It is sad the very communities that need to be represented the most are used as pawns by the likes of political clubs like the Lower East Dems (John Quinn, Alice's husband), the Truman Club (Shelly still at the wheel), and UDO (insider Chinatown club not representative of the population).

The panel could not determine whether NICHD's plan to enroll pregnant women through a sample of U.S. hospitals would yield a group as representative of the population as recruiting women through prenatal providers within the original 100 NCS counties.

This assumes that ambient ozone concentrations measured at the monitor location are representative of population exposure (see e.g. Meng et al. 2012; US EPA 2013 for a discussion of the validity of this assumption).

Kaiser Permanente Northern California members are broadly socioeconomically representative of the population except for the extremes of income distribution.24 Eligibility was restricted to singleton children who were born at a gestational age of at least 24 weeks and who remained health plan members until at least 2 years of age (n = 196 929).

Not only does it use a small sample size, but it is a non-randomized, non-blinded, prospective observational study that may also be confounded by selection bias — in other words, the subjects may not be representative of the population of individuals with IBD.

The couples observed were generally representative of the population, but a few demographics showed a particular inclination towards online dating:

(The researchers note that these preliminary findings are not yet representative of the population at large, because they pull from a partial sample of data; the full sample will be representative, as will the final study results.)

But the most important principle of survey research is that it is not the size of the sample that matters, but rather the degree to which that sample is representative of the population under study.

Before we describe the PoP results from this year, and comment whether Year 7 students generally make progress, we need to be convinced that we have a sample of schools and students that are broadly representative of the population of secondary schools and Year 7 students in England (which is where our PoP schools are located).

In no way shape or form am I claiming that this survey is scientific or representative of the population but it is unquestionably the closest thing we have to Facebook advertising effectiveness because it does not rely on anecdote.

The authors, most of whom responded after receiving a notification from Writer's Digest about the survey, may not be representative of the population of authors.

We estimate that our sample is representative of that population within a margin of error of + -4.30 %, and + -4.20 %, respectively.

He concluded that pit bulls account for 5 % of dogs and considers that these figures are representative of the population of dogs across Canada and the United States over a period of 34 years.

As few as 1.5 - 2 would give a fair chance the point was representative of the population, but I still would not bet on it.

The result of these machinations is to alter and / or delete the data of individuals most representative of the population of interest.

It seems to me the authors of the paper wanted to make inferences about the AMS membership: On page 16 they make an attempt to claim their sample is representative of the population (it is nowhere near that, judging from what they report in that paragraph and the sample size).

The sampled papers are not representative of the population of papers.

«We want to know that we are becoming a more representative bar and that we're becoming more representative of the population that we serve here and the clients that we have,» says Halpern.

As far as diversity in the legal profession goes, perhaps the profession has been a bit slower than others in being representative of the population as a whole (especially when we compare it to professions like accounting and engineering).

Interestingly, Ontario's Aboriginal lawyers are representative of the population they serve, with between one and two per cent, compared with two per cent of the Ontario population that is Aboriginal.

Cristina Figueroa has a personal connection to the mission of JTB and wholeheartedly believes that those in the legal field, as advocates of justice and equality, should be demographically representative of the population they serve.

One way to enhance the credibility of the process is to make sure the advisory committees themselves are representative of our population,» says Smith.

We worked with Kelton Research, who conducted the research on our behalf, and surveyed more than 1,000 Americans who were statistically representative of the population.

Therefore, the resulting parameters are representative of the population from which the sample was drawn.

However, both participant and setting characteristics were poorly described and were not representative of the population with emotional and / or behavioral disorders.

Despite the large sample obtained being representative of the population from which it was drawn, failure to obtain data from all individuals will have the consequence of limiting data available to the current and future record linkages conducted within the NSW - CDS framework.

ensuring the weighted file is representative of the population by aligning the estimates with population benchmarks.

Because we over-sampled girls from the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, all analyses are adjusted for this over-sampling by utilizing a weighting variable making results representative of the population of 5 — 8 year old girls in the City of Pittsburgh (Hipwell et al. 2002).

Results were tabulated by age and gender, and not weighted to be representative of the population at large.

This self - selection bias may have skewed the results making the sample in the study not representative of the population of people who have experienced CSA.

Not exact matches

Through a measurement of happiness and well - being called the «Cantril ladder,» Gallup asked nationally representative populations to value their lives on a scale from 0 to 10, with the worst possible life valued at 0 and the best valued at 10.

There are no more tattoos or nose rings than in a representative sample of the population.

Rather, this huge sample is fairly representative of the U.S. commercial bank population on the whole — which totaled under 4,900 in the latest quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The AP - Times Square Alliance Poll of 1,007 adults was conducted online Dec. 9 - 11, using a sample drawn from GfK's probability - based KnowledgePanel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population.

The poll of 1,833 adults age 18 - 30 was conducted using a sample drawn from the probability - based GenForward panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. young adult population.

I would say right now there is certainly a group of women that cares deeply about it, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily representative of the general population.»

A disclaimer: OKCupid's data pool, which is based on its users, isn't a representative sample of the population.

The AP - NORC poll of 1,140 adults was conducted April 11 - 16 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability - based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population.

Trudeau added that it's a mistake to «lock someone into a representative narrative,» and that leadership should aim to «have people share a full range of experiences» from diverse populations if they want to open their capacity to be truly creative.

The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys can not be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.

«Innovative projects such as this one are key to responding to the needs of a population facing long - term displacement,» Stefano Severe, the UNHCR's representative to Jordan, said in a statement.

Methodology: This GOBankingRates survey posed six questions to 1,007 people in the U.S. Responses were collected through Survata on May 30, 2017, and responses are representative of the U.S. online population.

And it would then be obvious that to the extent the interests of the shareholders clash with those of «the community» — a community that, for all intents and purposes, includes the entire population of the developed world — it's the responsibility of the community's elected representatives in Congress to make rules that align those incentives.

It was also great to see some discussion of the Fed during the Democratic primary, when both Bernie Sanders and Clinton indicated support for making the nation's largest bank more representative of the general population.

And this means that the firms that do change price are a perfectly representative sample of the rest of the population of firms that can not change price.

Understandably, there is a disproportionate number of younger users but overall, the Ethereum community appears much less representative of the global population than one might hope.