Sentence examples for comparison population from inspiring English sources

Almost 30 percent of the women who lived exceptionally long were smokers, slightly more than the 26 percent of women in the comparison population who smoked.

Panel A of Table 1 summarises the average mobility of our three main comparison population groups.

During the first year following parole release, program participants on average stayed out of prison longer than the comparison population.

We see in Table 1 that individuals who participated in the WIA Adult program are more likely to be female and black and are also appreciably younger than individuals in the comparison population.

"I find the data intriguing, but I have concerns about the lack of information on skin phototype (i.e. the pigmentation status of skin) in the pilots and crew relative to the comparison population," Fisher wrote in an email to HuffPost.

"While the authors point out that the comparison population was primarily northern Europeans who are predicted to be generally fair skinned, the possibility of variation in this important risk factor remains unknown and therefore does introduce a limitation on confidence of the conclusion that pilots or crew members are truly at elevated melanoma risk".

By eliminating exposed cohort members, i.e. mobile phone subscribers, from the comparison population in the calculations of SHRs, we removed a potential source of underestimation of an association.

More than 60% of controls identified in the subscriber cohort characterized themselves as making or receiving calls at least once a week, while the comparison population of non-subscribers included only 16% of such users; hence, the subscriber cohort contains about four times as many regular mobile phone users as the comparison population of non-subscribers.

Additional studies in populations with low background vaccination rates may help quantify the minimum vaccination coverage required to attain measureable indirect benefits.[24] The identification of a proper comparison population had implications for our assessment of effectiveness.

The standard comparison population was the white Scottish population.

The Camp Pendleton cohort was an appropriate comparison population.