This method of convenience sampling did not conform to the random population sampling of the main study, but was the best possible compromise, enriching the sample with people with troublesome headache while including a more representative subset of non-patients.
A random-sampling method was included in this study as a benchmark because its characteristics are well known and conform to the requirements of sampling theory even though such methods often fail to provide good spatial coverage.
Genes that do not conform to the assumptions of the sample-level meta-analysis, and have consistent expression patterns but substantial variation across studies, are benefited by the study-level meta-analysis.
Furthermore, study-level meta-analysis was well suited for genes that exhibit consistent patterns across studies, genes that had substantial variation across studies, and genes that did not conform to the assumptions of the sample-level meta-analysis.
The NIOSH sampler conforms to the ACGIH/ISO criteria for respirable particle sampling [25].
For this reason, the empirical results should be interpreted in view of some limitations: the sample of companies is random and does not fully conform to the criteria of statistical representation; the sample of companies could be expanded numerically.
The sampling conformed to the decision of the Swedish Animal Ethical Committee (no. C62/10) and the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency (no.31-1711/10).
The same sample in petrography thin sections also showing the quartz and organic matter presence conforms to the sample containing clay minerals, organic matter and quartz.
The sample data conform to the Minimum Information Specification For In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Experiments (MISFISHIE) standards [ 15], and describe the tissue, distribution of reaction product in the tissue, localization pattern within cell types, and provide an assessment of the level of protein expression based on the immunostaining data.
The estimates of niche breadth and habitat overlap obtained from the distribution and abundance of the three forms/species in the sample locations conformed to the general pattern of the discriminant analysis, but differences among taxa and species pairs were much larger (Table 6, under columns "SL").
The ductile fracture surface features from both room and low temperature-tested samples conform to the experimental data that the impact energies of the ECAE samples are almost the same.
