The phrase "a more general sample" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a sample that encompasses a broader range of characteristics or elements compared to a specific sample.
Example: "In our study, we decided to analyze a more general sample to ensure that our findings are applicable to a wider population."
Alternatives: "a broader sample" or "a wider sample".
However, no studies were located validating the PGWB in a more general sample of patients with type 2 diabetes.
First, our study is based on a hospital population and demands confirmation in a more general sample.
For this reason the study cannot throw light on the more general association of alcohol with social factors, as would be seen in a more general sample.
While previous studies investigated survival time only for specific patient groups such as premenopausal breast cancers with/without positive hormone receptors or patient groups who received supportive treatment with chemotherapy and/or hormones, the present study used a more general sample and included demographic factors not previously considered in Vietnam.
Because the serologic tests used were validated in a clinical environment among patients suspected to have dengue, their positive predictive value will be lower when applied as a screening tool in a more general sample of travelers in which disease occurrence is lower.
We demonstrate that geometries other than the traditional backscattering arrangement, using more general sample, analyzer, and detector orientation angles, can provide high resolution and offer potential advantages in design.
Confidence estimation of and significance testing of hypotheses on the scaling parameter are discussed in Sections 3.2 and 3.4 for p-power exponential and more general sample distributions, respectively.
Findings suggest that drinking identity's potential as a risk factor for problematic drinking extends to a more general US sample and that both implicit and explicit identity should be targeted in prevention efforts.
Resilience has been studied in samples of elderly persons with specific war-time histories such as veterans but to our knowledge, not in more general samples of WWII survivors who experienced various kinds of trauma during their wartime-childhood and adolescence.
The following theorem, which is known in some literature as the Paley-Wiener theorem [2], gives a sampling theorem with a more general class of sampling points.
