Sentence examples for a rather small population from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, this study was limited by a rather small population size and the morphometric variable "intervertebral disk thickness" was associated with a low statistical power.

A limitation of this study is that we studied a rather small population, because qualitative research is time consuming as it requires detailed analysis of a large amount of fairly unstructured data.

Although a rather small population of patients was part of the pilot study, the results are promising and should be studied in subsequent larger clinical trials: PDT followed by imiquimod treatment was well tolerated and combination of both improved the reduction of actinic keratoses, as demonstrated by the authors.

The German EQ-5D index was estimated based on a rather small population sample (N = 334) and must therefore be considered less precise: German index scores for all 243 EQ-5D health states were estimated from a sample of 36 states using a regression model.

Despite the reliable scientific setup of the study just a rather small population of 20 patients were investigated with all three imaging modalities and a selection bias has to be stated, as all patients were found suitable for needling as a treatment of choice before recruiting them for the study.

In addition, the application of the 'finite mixture model' to the NUSIMEP-7 'double' deposition sample (Table  5) demonstrated the model's strength for the determination of an accurate isotopic signature of a rather small population (i.e. 29 data points) present besides two larger ones (i.e. 122 and 633 data points).

So despite its rather small population (5 million), it brings valuable revenue.

We realize that this may have been due to the rather small population enrolled into the study or due to de novo mutations in investigated samples.

First of all, the present study comprised a rather small study population and should, therefore, be regarded as a pilot study.

It was estimated based on a rather small general population sample of N = 334 and the 243 health states of the EQ-5D were derived from a set of 36 health states using a regression model.

These data represented 1.78% of all peptides identified in the study, comprising a rather small protein population detected, indicating that such observations could be even more critical with a larger dataset.