Limitations include small sample size,
small number of data points, and that data on the statistical significance of the results was not presented.
As we only had
a small number of data points for this GLMM (N = 16), we ran three separate models, each with a single fixed factor (prosody, content or prosody — content matching) to avoid overfitting the models.
Not exact matches
Beam
points out that these GSS
numbers represent a very
small data set
of young men — only about 60 to 80 people.
(At this
point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness
of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority
of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free
data, and it seems a very
small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world
of paid - for Internet access.
Five years is a fairly short time frame, however, and the
number of unhappy spouses in these
data who had divorced and remarried by that
point is
small.
«It's too
data - intensive to compute every single
point, so we have to come up with a way to predict any
point in this space from just a
small number of sampled
data points,» says Schulz.
The
number referred to is the
number of data points; I interpret your original post as implying that you believe the value
of the
number is the
small number in question — i.e., because 7 or 10 is a
small number, the distinction is obscure.
# 73 My basic
point is that with a
small number of datapoints SDs tend to be driven by the next piece
of data.
My
point at that time was that the
number of CRN 1 and CRN 2 stations was very
small and that given the noisy
data for temperature trends amongst even closer spaced stations meant that in order to see a statistically significant difference due to CRN rating would require a very large difference in trends or a larger
number of stations in those classifications.
This situation probably only impacted a
small number of consumers, but it is one more
data point undermining the Apple mystique.