First, we made an assumption that the distribution of subject characteristics in the 5% control sample could be extrapolated to the entire non-cancer population, inflating the sample size by a factor of 20.
Moreover, the use of volunteers, rather than a well-defined practice-based population, inflates the rate of diabetes and pre-diabetes detected, because those who volunteer for screening are likely to do so due to personal concerns of higher diabetes risk.
We hope this new data, which will be released in the spring of 2011, will bolster the efforts of reformers who are trying to end prison-based gerrymandering — the cynical practice of drawing legislative districts with populations inflated by inmates who do not have the right to vote and whose actual residences are often far away.
On the other hand, diversifying selection within populations inflates within-population diversity, which results in lack of differentiation within populations relative to the within-population polymorphism.
By the 2000 census, California's population had inflated enough to earn an extra seat in Congress, requiring the state to redraw its intricate map of electoral districts.
Royalty payments and company handouts have brought electricity, roads and some jobs, but the oil boom also caused a population explosion, inflated prices and the decline of local agriculture.
A simulation study testing the violations to isolation-with-migration models showed that gene flow with a third population, can inflate migration and effective population size estimates [ 44].
Based on the regression line [y = 0.692−0.271 log R ], sequence diversity in northern populations is inflated relative to FP in regions experiencing less than 7.3% recombination with the centromere and reduced relative to FP beyond this point.
The second reason could be the occurrence of breed specific alleles that segregate within the back-cross population, which inflate the genetic variance compared to a pure breed population.
Furthermore, overstratification to account for hypothetical variability in the population may inflate uncertainty in BSE risk estimates.
