Sentences with phrase «too small a sample size»

Based on Graph 1, a sample size as small as 50 - 100 can start to tell us a story (10 - 20 is too small a sample size, unless results are extraordinary)-- but 200 - 500 is even better.

I would not assume from these limited minutes anything about what Markelle could do against physicality, its just too small a sample size.

This is too small a sample size.

There are well - known tests that should be used to ensure that one doesn't use too small a sample size — tests you'd really think Drs. Carter and Whitehouse would be familiar with, and even the good Viscount of Brenchley.

Not exact matches

A few of these include a too - small sample size and the simple fact that the participants knew what was being studied and were aware of the hypothesis.

On the other hand, if your sample size is too small, results may not be statistically meaningful.

You never want to make too much out of one poll, and the sample size for individual countries are pretty small in this one, but still, I was struck by some of the results in this international poll of 11 and 12 year - olds, feature in this AM's KidsPost (frequent breakfast reading in our house).

In other words, this sample size is too small to consider his numbers in context of the rest of the league.

It just means that there is too much randomness in the small sample size and that the system should be tested over more games (a longer time period or larger sample size).

But take this with a grain of salt, it's a small sample size and I didn't do too much to handle outliers or anything like that.

i know the sample size is incredibly small, but i wonder if being with Rousey somehow creates a Kardashian Effect on fighters... i believe Schaub fell on a huge slump around the time he was dating Rousey too.

While the sample size is certainly way too small to derive meaningful conclusions, it is interesting to note that all four teams receiving 80 % of more of spread tickets failed to cover the spread.

i'm too lazy to get into this discussion right now, but i got into something similar about true shooting percentage and it became clear that a lot of people didn't even understand what the coefficent in that formula means and that the formula is best used over a long period of time, not a small sample size.

When dealing with statistics and betting trends, it is essential that your betting system has a significant sample size which accurately represents the data as choosing a sample size that is too small may not give an accurate representation.

Unfortunately our sample size is too small to extract much from the top trends during the Final Four; however, we do have a number of sharp money indicators for Saturday's games.

Note: With such a small sample size it's best not to place too much stock in these results.

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.

As with Gracia, the sample size is small and you shouldn't really read too much into it.

«The sample size was too small,» is a common complaint, no matter what the size of the study might be.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

In the past, one of the main complaints about other studies has been the size of the sample which was said to be too small.

«The sample size is too small to see major differences, but we want to increase awareness about chemical exposures.»

Statisticians reexamined the body of work on heritability in general and declared the sample sizes too small to support the nature - nurture statistics.

(The sample size was too small to provide meaningful salary numbers for European postdocs.)

More hobbit fossils are needed to settle the matter; (2) Ralph Holloway (Columbia University) states that although the hobbit skull may not have microcephalic morphology (shape), it does seem to indicate other brain abnormalities; (3) another researcher states that the size sample in the study was too small.

Clearly, the sample size of those studies was too small.

But Facebook isn't a dating site and its single employees are likely too small for a reliable sample size.

First, it would all but eliminate school - level information about the learning of student subgroups, as testing only a single grade in each school often results in sample sizes for groups such as English learners or blacks that are too small to yield reliable information for the school as a whole.

However, the sample size for this part of the study was too small to determine whether students who participated in Reading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rd grade.

Too many places see year - to - year changes and assume they're real rather than an artifact of small sample sizes.

Bartell argued that Pearson's sample sizes (60 students) were too small for solid conclusions to be drawn from them; that there was no evidence that Waterford and not other factors caused the gains; and that the gains were too small to be meaningful in any case, or to be representative of the district as a whole.

We also considered a model with all 12 neighborhood characteristics, but our sample sizes are too small for so many explanatory variables.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said the findings were not supported by the evidence, and claimed that the sample size of schools used in the analysis were too small to be «statistically robust».

The sample size is too small and, as it admitted in the full report but not in the synopsis, correlation isn't causation.

Latino parents (61 %) are much more likely than whites (42 %) to say they have received information about getting involved (sample sizes for Asian and black parents are too small for separate analysis).

(Mathematica could not detect any outcome differences for TFA teachers versus novice regular teachers, but the sample size was too small to draw a meaningful conclusion.)

It says the DfE has tried to «assess whether creating free schools is having the intended effect of improving educational standards through competition but the sample size is currently too small to draw meaningful conclusions».

TrueCar is not able to calculate a confidence rating for this vehicle because the sample size of sales transactions is too small.

Although the sample size of teen library users is too small for detailed analysis, in general the 16 - 17 year olds who went to the library for research assistance in the past year tended to do so five times or less.

@DUNNER2 @CBSNews Now there was a poll that no one asked for, the sample size was far too small, but actually had a real impact.

However, the mortality rate (i.e. the ratio of actual to expected deaths) experienced to date has been less than 50 % — which clearly suggests assumed LEs were too short (though TLI's small portfolio / sample size should be noted).

They did not record the amount of time the dog spent in the baby's bedroom and the sample size was too small to be conclusive about specific breeds.

Although the sample size is too small to be conclusive, it would certainly seem worthwhile to look for an underlying thyroid deficiency in these cases.

On average, females (9 ± 4 km) tended to move farther than males (6 ± 3 km), although sample sizes were too small for meaningful statistical analysis.

Paper J notes that the anthropogenic effect on sea level rise in one region of the world (the Pacific Ocean) over one period of time (1993 - 2013) is too small to detect at a statistically significant level due to factors such as: a) small sample size (only 20 years), b) the effect of control variables (such as the IPO), c) limitations of satellite altimetry measurement, the technique being used to measure sea level in paper H. Paper K offers a contrasting account of paper J, noting that part of the Pacific sea level rise is anthropogenic.

This is because of the small sample size, the test is having a too small of power to be able to reject H0 and therefore the test is useless and the value of the «proof» of H0 is also null.

the CRU 12 RCS done by Jeff has a sample size which is too small and therefore likely intermingles the age related growth with time related environmental signals.

That makes the sample size too small to divine trends with any certainty.

Every story on new research should include the sample size and highlight where it may be too small to draw general conclusions.

By the time big data sets are filtered down to the type of matter that is relevant, sample sizes may be too small and measurements may be exposed to potentially large sampling errors.