Moreover, this approach allows for WTP studies with much smaller sample sizes than traditional methods require.
Our results suggest the regression method in general can yield a much smaller sample size than other methods.
A weighted least squares problem is solved on a (much) smaller sample set to obtain the regression result.
Pew Research, with a much smaller sample size, also showed that Obama's approval rating with 18- to 29-year-olds has taken a dive.
Several previous reports using much smaller sample sets suggested that it would be possible to discriminate malignant from benign ovarian tumors using circulating miRNAs22,23,24.
Yes, Manning has been great in the clutch — while Romo hasn't played nearly as poorly as is portrayed — but that's over a much smaller sample size.
The mitochondrial DNA test is less expensive and so sensitive that a mutation can be picked up from a much smaller sample of blood.
From an apparently free-scoring group stage carnival in which 48 matches produced 136 goals between them, the eight eliminators of the last 16 – admittedly a much smaller sample size – delivered a comparatively paltry 18.
But because the household poll uses a much smaller sample, its month-to-month changes are often misleading, said Thomas J. Nardone, the Labor Department economist who oversees the survey.
This set Lucas's work apart from most previous studies of happiness, which have had to ask participants to recall their happiness levels from years earlier, and which usually relied on a much smaller sample size.
Such generalization greatly helps when we have a large number of variables, such as in a typical RNA-seq experiment that may have hundreds to hundreds of thousands of features (e.g., transcripts) but a much smaller sample size.
