The phrase "as a small sample" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a limited example or representation of a larger group or concept.
Example: "As a small sample, we can look at the results from the first quarter to gauge overall performance."
Alternatives: "as a brief example" or "as a limited illustration".
Believing they had gotten the best from a player with surgically repaired knees — and discounting his.615 World Series average as a small sample size — the Yankees showed no desire to bring back the 35-year-old Matsui.
Since this was a pilot study with several limitations, such as a small sample size and absence of a control treatment and appropriate follow-up, further studies that include a randomized design, larger sample sizes, and more detailed data about the subjects are needed to convincingly show the effects of electroacupuncture at abdominal meridian points on overweight and obese patients.
They include, as a small sample, Zeno's paradoxes of motion, puzzles about time, the nature of place, and difficulties encountered in thought about the infinite.
The former imposes a strong restriction over the estimation sample as a small sample of individuals in our data lie in this particular category.
However the authors caution some limitations in their study such as a small sample size but nevertheless support future pharmacogenetic testing to identify algorithms for more effective treatment [64].
As a small sample size prevents the assumption of a normal distribution, the statistical comparison necessarily was carried out using non-parametric tests.
The findings of Wheeler et al. [ 61] were also considered an anomaly in this data set due, as well, to a small sample size.
As only a small sample of nurses from just five provinces participated in the current survey, the results cannot be generalized across the whole of Indonesia.
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IN this step, the algorithm receives as input just a small sample of ranked data, wherein at least one instance of each class needs to be provided.
It is as if Vermeer put a small sample of life under the microscope, just as his neighbor, Leeuwenhoek, did in his revolutionary observations of protozoa.
