Sentences with phrase «sample of a population»

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

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

The survey methodology used by Census is broadly considered to be the gold standard - the ACS surveys a broad representative sample of the population and is free of bias.

In addition the data sources and algorithms behind the reports are not made available, while the sampling of the population is small and primarily urban and even these small numbers were also misreported.

This in not a sample of the population at large.

It uses a sample of the population, but a very large one, so that members of small religious groups actually do show up (as they often do not in smaller national surveys).

Over the past ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.

Over the last ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.

Are the results of the study based on a sample of the population that would apply to you?

Of course, of course, we can draw the most limited of conclusions from website comments, since the people who leave them are both functionally anonymous and not a representative sample of the population.

By conducting surveys in Russia and Ukraine, using representative samples of the populations of both countries, this project seeks to unpick the elements which make up the national identity of Russians and Ukrainians, with particular emphasis given to Ukraine's varied and contested regions, such as Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

The Electoral Reform Society has therefore teamed up with a range of universities to set up two pilot citizens» assemblies, essentially mini-conventions, which will bring representative samples of the population in the Sheffield and Southampton areas to deliberate on and decide where power should lie at a local level.

«All polling is based on the assumption that you are trying to interview a sample of the population from which you reckon you can come up with an accurate estimate,» says John Curtice at the University of Strathclyde, one of the UK's leading pollsters.

Dr Piers Dawes, from The University of Manchester's Audiology and Deafness research group, said: «This is the first study to describe the prevalence of difficulties understanding speech in background noise in a large sample of the population, anywhere in the world.

This survey involves random samples of the population.

This data set includes data on more than 250,000 individual students, who form a representative sample of a population of more than 30 million students in the 39 countries.

Marwood called for a national reference test «where we have a sample of the population to see generally how children are getting on in the primary sector».

Your AE stuff doesn't suffer from these problems because it appears to be a tallying of a population rather than a sampling of a population.

This latest survey was designed to determine the opinion of a large sample of the population about the issue of whether the problem of aggressive dogs is mostly due to the genetics of particular breeds or due to the nature of the rearing conditions and environment provided by the dog's owner.

It is difficult to make broad interpretations about ocular diseases common to Irish Wolfhounds using this relatively small sample of the population; however, cataracts, corneal dystrophy, and distichiasis were the most commonly identified problems in this clinic.

In this investigation 353 CKCS were selected as a sample of the population and 150 were examined by auscultation for heart murmurs when they reached the age of six years in 2007 and 2009.

The data of the Finnish Kennel Club can be considered to be a representative sample of these populations.

Both are represented as a population (nature) and as a sample of population (our measurement of nature).

For statistics, you need samples of a population.

The outputs of climate models aren't samples of a population, except to the extent they are samples of the uncertainty of climate modellers, and hence a measure of the lack of consensus among them.

TCO, to what extent do you think your claim is true, that «the different models are not independent samples of a population?»

The different models are not independent samples of a population.

The problem with this approach is that the collection of curves can not be interpreted as a representative sample of some population of reconstructions.

The challenge is figuring out whether or not these cases from QL are a representative sample of the population of cases in which one of these recommendations was considered in an Ontario court.

Legal Australia - Wide Survey (LAW Survey), provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an extensive range of legal needs on a representative sample of the population.

provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an extensive range of legal needs on a representative sample of the population.

Survey is used to collect the relevant data from large sample of the population (McIntyre 1999, p. 74).

Not exact matches

Their goal is to be 95 % sure that the real level of support in the whole population is captured in the sample's range, from the low end of the margin of error to the high end.

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.

That last step is the most important, but also one of the most challenging because «when you try to sample a large population of people who you already know have a certain disease, like cancer, it's really difficult to pinpoint all the different biomarkers that will make you fairly sure of the person's illness is detected regardless of environmental conditions,» he says.

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.

Companies such as MarketTools and other market research firms can develop random sample populations and help compile lists for specialized market segments, such as women between the ages of 25 and 40 who live in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who have children or pets.

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.

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.

As they tell it, the partners at Highland Capital simply thought they would benefit them by putting a petri dish of innovators — a sample population of the country's most talented young entrepreneurs — within a short walk of their offices.

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.

The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys can not be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the 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.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

YouGov BrandIndex (www.brandindex.com) is the only daily consumer perception research service of brands, taking nearly 4,000 interviews every day from a representative UK population sample, more than 670,000 interviews per year.

(Washington, D.C.: Committee on Education and the Workforce, February, 13, 2002), http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/eer/enronthree21302/kruse.htm Another study comparing a matched sample of ESOP versus non-ESOP firms in with similar industries and workforce sizes among closely held companies, again, using population data on all available US DOL data followed the ESOP firms before and after their adoption of the ESOP from 1988 to 1998 along with the matched firms and found that 20 % of the ESOP firms had a defined benefit plan before adopting their ESOP, and 10 years later, after adopting their ESOP, they had defined benefit plans five times more than non-ESOP firms), 33.3 % of ESOP firms had a 401 (k) plan before adopting their ESOP with 52.4 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms), and 35.7 % of ESOP firms had a deferred profit - sharing plan before adopting their ESOP with 51.2 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms).

We utilized a sample of the Millennial population (Approx 86,000,000 according to U.S. Census).

Clearing this regulatory hurdle means that by early next year, Matternet partner Swiss Post plans to use the drones to deliver blood samples and other small parcels between hospitals in Lugano, a smaller city with a population of about 56,000.

In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3 percentage points, for each of the retired and not retired samples, of what the results would have been had the entire population of adults in Canada been polled.