Other researchers say they prefer the GSS for its greater sample size and higher response rate.
For one thing, the sample size of this study is extremely small: one school.
And at the conference, the undergrad researcher, Katie Kirsch, noted the small sample size and suggested further study.
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But the methodology and sample size are such that you can't be too sure of the Scottish figure.
Thus far, over a sample size of just three games, the realignments have helped the Rangers and Dubinsky.
This is one study of one snow monkey troop in the 1950s, admittedly not a big sample size.
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The sample size is small and biased toward press who prefer to use personal Gmail accounts over professional addresses.
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Once that playoff sample size gets big enough, many players wind up performing at their expected, regular season level.
The estimates for job creation are drawn from a fairly large sample size.
But the relevant sample size for many purposes for instance, measuring the uncertainty of the analysis is 33, the number of clusters.
The sample size is small, and one of the four cases is the Mannkind inhaler itself in its previous go-around.
Basing a conclusion on a statistically significant sample size almost always leads to a proper conclusion, but not in this case.
Aside from the fact that the sample size is far too small to be useful, Dr Wakefield's hypothesis has other problems.
The new report, a measure of hiring by private companies, will draw from a greater sample size and use a revised methodology.
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Even if everyone in the room voted on this topic, the sample size was extremely small for truly understanding overall market sentiment.
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Over the weekend, Guangzhou authorities said the sample size was small, and not necessarily representative of all rice being sold in the city.
There has been little evidence to suggest that Kershaw will feel any lingering effects in his next start albeit using this small sample size.
Nearly 7 percent of all traffic in the current-year sample size is mobile, up from 3.4 percent in the first half of 2010.
The survey is based on a sample size of 257 respondents, 52% of whom see the economy getting stronger or staying the same.
The studied sample size in the paper was relatively small, so it will have to be replicated before the practice can be used.
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The unemployment rate is derived from a separate survey of households, which has an even smaller sample size and thus a wider confidence range.
It looked at listed buildings, unlisted buildings in conservation areas, scheduled monuments, and historic parks and gardens and based its figures on the sample size.
Block wrote a research paper comparing a sample size of 1, 000.
This is why statistical trends relative to sample size are important.
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Why not simply raise the response rate or increase sample size?
Besides the small sample size one might need tens or even hundreds of subjects for the study to have much validity the research was dogged by other problems.
Jaime Gahche, main author of the CDC report, and her co-authors analyzed responses from a sample size of 37, 596, using National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys.
Simon Wigglesworth, deputy chief executive of Epilepsy Action, said more research was needed, particularly given the "small sample size and the inconsistencies in the data collected".
But the researchers conceded that their sample size, 302 volunteers, may have been too small to detect modest differences and concluded that more study was needed.
Only two countries, Nepal and Bangladesh, of the 108 countries studied (a greatly expanded sample size from earlier attempts) showed stronger returns in the summer.
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