What this exercise ultimately shows is the limitation of small-sample analysis: there have only been 14 different presidents in the last 83 years, which is too small to draw any meaningful inferences.
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The online survey, by Nationwide Financial, questioned a small, self-selected sample of advisers, so the results may not be representative.
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Other health effects of PCB exposure have been noticed by researchers - even this small sample of men was noticed to be shorter than average.
Where bills are higher, such as in the South West, they appear to be less keen - although the small sample sizes in these areas mean that the data needs to be treated with caution.
But the advent of the chairlift puts an end to a valuable process of natural selection, by which those who reach the hut are sure to find, in its pure state, a small sample of a little-known human subspecies.
Although this is a small sample, it suggests that man-made dust particles predominate over naturally occurring ones.
But trust me on this: This is a very, very small sample of a much larger category - much larger problem.
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It's a small sample, but the evidence favors do-it-yourselfers.
The Adecco survey sample was relatively small, just 522 full-time workers polled in a telephone survey done from November 21-25, but to me, the findings ring true.
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Kay Kinton, a spokeswoman for AWS, says the company commissioned independent research from IDC that examined a small sample of AWS customers and found that four-fifths said their unplanned downtime dropped after they moved operations to the cloud.
Although the findings of the studies are mostly consistent in showing a similar magnitude hazard ratio, estimates of the effectiveness of sipuleucel-T are imprecise due to the relatively small total sample size of the clinical trials, and unmeasurable biases due to potential confounding effects of frozen salvage product and post-progression treatments.
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The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
In all three cases, explained Dr Stysley, the effect is a small one - but it could in some instances outperform existing methods of sample gathering.
The Knicks are 5-0 under Woodson and though it's a small sample size it's worth noting that no team has allowed fewer than 87.5 points per game this season.
Two years ago Pfizer reported that six patients in its trial--all former smokers--got lung cancer after using Exubera, though the sample was too small to prove it caused the cancer.
Although this is a small sample of people, it is typical for neuroimaging studies, which are expensive and time-intensive.
Others say the study sample sizes -- about 100 kids in each case -- may be too small to support sweeping conclusions.
But if this small sample is in any way an accurate reflection of the truth, then the first and most straight-forward conclusion is that Notre Dame is more likely to see its football players graduate relative to other schools with high-caliber football programs.
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