Sentences with phrase «small sample size at»

It may just be small sample size at this point.

Limitations include a high drop - out rate for the sample, inability to fully examine site differences due to the small sample sizes at the outcome assessment points, and lack of follow - up

Not exact matches

This timeliness and detail comes at a cost, however, as the small sample sizes of the LFS causes the estimates to have substantial standard errors (which can lead to some peculiar results at the provincial and CMA levels).

On the other hand, the Poloz - led Bank's record at identifying the timing and magnitude of economic shocks on output has been bad — granted, the sample size is small (1!).

i took issue with you looking at a small sample size and saying «regression,» and I pointed out that after a bad season, you rebounded with a good one.

«Always focus on the most recent sample size, no matter how small,» was probably a Bill James quote, but I'm not at home, so I can't look it up.

But if the batter goes 1 for 10 by standing backwards in the batters box, putting his helmet on upside - down, forgetting to bring a bat etc, then it is legit to say something is wrong — and saying «Look it's just 10 at - bats, small sample size» would trouble me.

Although some people will scream «small sample size,» take a look at how futures odds have changed for these two teams:

The trend holds if you look specifically at Top 5 contests as well, though the sample size gets smaller.

16 strikeouts in 12.2 innings at Clearwater, 2.31 ERA in a small sample size.

Although the highest return on investment comes when we look at ranked teams following a loss of at least 28 points, the sample size is so small (42) that it will not produce many matches this season.

Although we're dealing with a smaller sample size, I wanted to determine whether money percentages correlated with ticket percentages at this historically profitable threshold.

It's a small sample size but teams getting less than 40 % of bets in National Title games have gone 5 - 1 ATS (dogs 4 - 0 ATS, favorites 1 - 1 ATS).

Obviously one game is a small sample size and all sorts of disasters could await on the horizon but there is hope that us Suns fans could have found respite from the harsh desert of suckitude and can finally enjoy a midnight at the oasis.

But keep in mind that 2018 will basically be their rookie season and that we have seen a small sample size of what Conley can do (it looked great) but there will no doubt be a learning curve that will have to come at the expense of in - season mistakes.

Admittedly it's a small sample size, but teams coming off a huge ATS loss have been extremely profitable during the NBA Finals.

Our return on investment has increased at every data point with the exception of 11 and 11.5 and, in all fairness, the sample size for those data points are very small and not necessarily the best indicator.

Despite this small sample size and potential obstacles to playing time, BetOnline lists Betts» odds of winning the AL MVP at +3300.

Although the return on investment is slightly higher at the 25 % level, the smaller sample size and fewer units won are potential red flags.

Although the overall units earned drops off significantly based on the smaller sample size, you can see that the return on investment is far higher at this percentage.

Although we're dealing with a small sample size, teams who were defeated by five touchdowns or more have gone 18 - 7 ATS (72.0 %) in their next game.

At this point I have no idea if they have talent or not because we don't get to see them, and if we do we see them for 20 games which is way to small a sample size to get any correlation to how somebody will do.

Since Hodges has been at Ohio State, though it's a small sample size, the Buckeyes have had top - notch recruiting classes.

Yes, the sample size is small and you shouldn't read too much into it just yet, but Gracia has already had a huge impact at Watford, proving that the club were right to sack Silva.

While the sample size is small for this system, the consistent results and win percentage make it a must - follow at the end of the season.

Ofotokun notes this was a small sample size conducted at a single site, with a mostly male, African - American population, and a short duration of 48 weeks.

He has since been laughing, apparently, at Ellen DeGeneres while watching her on television in his cage; two is a small sample size, I realize, but perhaps he finds homosexual human beings particularly comical.

Even though I did not get a statistically significant change, the p values I did get, are so very small, and since my sample size is also very small, we have to look at this information a lot more if we are going to see whether or not there has been [in] fact [a] change over time.

«The sample size was small, but the findings, while intuitive, were revealing,» said lead author James F. Meadow, a postdoctoral researcher in the Biology and the Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon.

Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»

It shows only the incidence of flagged authors for the 57 nations with at least 100 submitted papers, to minimize distortion from small sample sizes.

In an accompanying editorial, Dr Hagai Levine, Visiting Scientist, from Hebrew University - Hadassah, Israel, and Professor Shanna Swan, Professor of Preventive Medicine, who are both at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (USA), write: «Despite the relatively small sample size and exposure assessment limitations, the paper makes a convincing case that dietary exposure to pesticides can adversely impact semen quality.

Observations of gravitational lensing at that time already hinted the presence of dark energy, but both due to the small sample size and large uncertainty in the theoretical modeling of lensing rates the result was not widely accepted.

In addition to the small sample size and the fact that the trial was not designed or intended as an efficacy study, one important caveat is that because the trial was not investigator - blinded, it is likely that at least some bias was introduced into the assessments, particularly on the more subjective ones such as the IGA and some components of the MDS - UPDRS II and III subscales.

However, new work by astronomers at the University of Sheffield has discovered an incident of a star being destroyed by a supermassive black hole in a much smaller sample size — a group of just 15 galaxies.

A limitation of this study is the small sample size, limited to tumor samples from patients treated for thyroid cancer at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

In the early 1970s, Swedish researchers showed vitamin D3 to have a substantially higher affinity for human DBP than vitamin D2.49 Their sample size was not reported and probably very small, and they unfortunately could not test the calcidiol forms of these vitamins because 25 - hydroxyvitamin D3 was at that time not yet commercially available.

The Center for Science in Public Interest (CSPI) has evaluated such claims on yogurt and found the evidence to be inconclusive at best, primarily owing to the limited research and small sample sizes.

I got a deluxe sample size of this cleanser in one of my Sephora play boxes, and now that I look at the full size price I'm really glad I got to try a smaller size of this.

Note first that the Survey of Income and Program Participation data R & B use yield very small sample sizes for looking at these job transitions, roughly 150 teachers leaving teaching for nonteaching jobs.

«When you have really small sample sizes, you should just be looking at main average effect across all neighbouring schools,» she said.

As the numbers of students scoring in the very high ranges of APTS were, naturally, significantly smaller than those scoring in the mid and low ranges, the sample size was expanded by the inclusion of highly gifted students who had been tested at GERRIC's clinic, which specializes in the assessment of intellectually gifted children and adolescents.

That said, survivorship bias and small sample size are at play here.

And it's important to keep in mind their sample size was quite small: three bobcats, 26 mountain lions, and seven domestic cats (although the authors suggest at one point that only five domestic cats were included).

In journal article after journal article, and book after book, I found cat - predation studies that were flawed by small sample size, samples that were not shown to be typical, unjustified generalizations, a failure to account for confounding factors, and a tendency to assume that predation of individual birds necessarily resulted in damage to bird populations at the species level.

It was perhaps a bit small, with a sample size of 122 fledglings, but that number is large enough to be at least indicative, although not conclusive.

First of all, we have a very small sample size of people (less than 10) who reported they only play with their cat for one minute at a time.

While the small sample size did not permit a detailed statistical analysis, our recordings indicate that relative cone function may be lost at a slower rate than rod function; this would be consistent with the dog owners» observations that night - blindness precedes loss of day - vision at Stage 3.

Unfortunately, we can't jump the gun and score another one in the books for the videogames industry, the sample size was incredibly small at only 8 surgeons, so we'll have to wait for more research to be done.

Can machine learning techniques do better at smaller sample sizes?