The phrase "a very small standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a minimal or low benchmark or criterion in a specific context.
Example: "In this project, we are aiming for a very small standard to ensure that even the simplest tasks are completed successfully."
Alternatives: "a minimal standard" or "a low standard".
Amazingly, the devices based on E-SnO2 exhibit excellent repeatability with a very small standard deviation in contrast to the devices based on EDTA and SnO2, indicating that the E-SnO2 is an excellent ETL in the planar-type PSC.
The mean ECiw of 2.14 dS/m was obtained with a very small standard deviation of 0.10.
As the random noise added to the synthetic data had a very small standard deviation (between 0.1 and 0.7 nT, depending on the component) compared to the typical amplitude of ionospheric fields, the data after correction were very close to the synthetic ionospheric field data themselves.
A wide range of posterior tibial slope was also found in the present study, but with a very small standard deviation, indicating that the majority of patients have a posterior tibial slope that approximates the averages of this study, and only a limited number of subjects require particular attention in the evaluation and pre-operative planning (in particular black subjects).
We assume that this statistical group difference may have resulted from a very small standard deviation value in the neutral cue condition.
It could also be done by viewing the ΔCt between the reference genes across all samples (as illustrated in Fig. 1), a method that should result in a very small standard deviation.
To reduce the bias in the objective function generated by very small standard deviations, a minimum threshold of 0.005 was imposed.
We could also measure a slight difference in extension and flexion gaps related to the very small standard deviations.
On the other hand, NPV and TNR from both classifiers show high mean values with very small standard deviation.
Adjusting for outliers is important to avoid assigning too much weight to studies with very small standard errors or large effect sizes.
It should be mentioned that the results presented in Table 2 is also highly reproducible, as demonstrated by the very small standard deviations of the device characteristic parameters (Additional file 1: Table S2).
