The phrase "a sample of minority" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing representation or demographics, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "The study included a sample of minority groups to analyze their health outcomes."
Alternatives: "a sample of underrepresented groups" or "a sample of marginalized populations".
We use data on non-Hispanic African-American youth (n = 629) from a large-scale, randomized residential mobility experiment called Moving to Opportunity (MTO), which enrolled a sample of mostly minority families originally living in distressed public housing.
Given the recent debate over whether differential pathways to overt aggression and delinquency exist between boys and girls, this study examined sex differences in overt aggressive and delinquent acts along with potential differences in precursors (anger, self-control, family disruption) to antisocial behaviors among a sample of urban minority adolescents (N = 1559).
The children were recruited from economically distressed neighborhoods surrounding 17 community centers managed by the City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department (HPARD) to make sure we had a representative sample of minority children living in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area.
Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to examine the perceptions of a mindfulness-based program in a sample of low-income minority older adults.
To better understand the role that race and ethnicity may have on disease and lifestyle management, the mailing for the 2007 survey was increased with a targeted sample of minorities (African-Americans and Hispanics).
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied the link between food allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children.
To address the minority attrition, a sample of 598 Black adolescents (in the same age range) were recruited through lists of residential numbers for US census tracts for which African-Americans represented 20% or more of the population, resulting in an available sample of 3653 for this study.
This project compiled the largest sample of minorities of any published, clinically reviewed ALS research study to date.
However, since this analysis used the largest sample of minorities with ALS to date, the finding is likely due to one, or a combination, of the behavioral, environmental, and genetic factors of ALS.
This study presents an objective assessment of sleep duration in a large sample of underserved minority children living in a large US metropolitan area.
