Sentence examples for misleading sampling from inspiring English sources

A larger volume of tissue may allow better assessment of the solid growth component, and avoid misleading sampling issues in mixed endometrioid/non-endometrioid tumours.

How can I use the information from a pilot to estimate the sample size? - Use with caution, as results from pilot studies can potentially mislead sample size calculations.

Therefore if not used cautiously, results of pilot studies can potentially mislead sample size or power calculations [ 21] -- particularly if the pilot study was done to see if there is likely to be a treatment effect in the main study.

Although several previous studies of partial mtDNA genomic sequences apparently resolved the long-standing question as to the true phylogeny of the recent rhinoceros species, we have demonstrated that these estimates were probably misled by sampling error.

Admissions to ICU are not homogeneous, and generalizing findings to all ICU admissions may be misleading since our sample was representative only of a surgical population.

[Note that the original BIC was expressed as BIC = LL – 0.5 k ln(n), for which the largest is the best (Schwartz 1978; Burnham and Anderson 2004).] To compare the model's predictions to the WSLS analysis taking into account the veracity of the feedback, the probabilities of "obeying" true or false (misleading) feedback were sampled from the best-fit computational model of behavior.

The results from the previous section suggest that comparing samples is misleading if we ignore differences in the sample compositions.

In recent years, the American Association for Public Opinion Research has waded into this controversy, recommending against the reporting of a margin of error for opt-in surveys and adding to its Code of Ethics a provision describing the "reporting of a margin of sampling error based on an opt-in or self-selected volunteer sample" as "misleading".

Most group-level methods require that the data come from homogeneous samples, and misleading findings may arise from current methods if the connectivity maps for individuals vary across the sample (which is likely the case).

No more relying on small, potentially unrepresentative samples and misleading averages.

We realize that the original 30 min WT field of Figure 1A could have been misleading (we had chosen samples where most vesicles were labeled to emphasize the occurrence of recycling) and we replaced them.