Sentence examples for representative proportion of from inspiring English sources

A limitation of this study is that the sample represented a smaller and probably less representative proportion of ambulance professionals than was the case with the other health professions surveyed.

We need a healthy balance of role models across the media, and advertisers need to find ways to target a representative proportion of the UK population.

Yet IMD says it takes a representative proportion of women at the appropriate level in business.Business also seems to have an image problem with women.

Quantitative genetic methods use phenotypic data on a large and representative proportion of the population, which have in livestock species typically taken the form of empirical measurement of continuous variables.

The official expressed concern that the recount and audit would be conducted not by examining every affected ballot box, but by statistical sampling, in which a representative proportion of the ballots are examined and those results used to extrapolate the total.

On any such random day, a representative proportion of participants would have experienced interictal symptoms.

A comparison of the outcomes generated by both approaches revealed that although the spatial configuration of the resulting MPAs differed, stakeholders performed well at including representative proportions of relevant marine habitats and species.

Cores were selected from regions of tumor containing representative proportions of epithelium and stroma, while avoiding highly necrotic regions.

Conversely, if the target species exerts positive interactions to non-palm saplings, the target species would accumulate and maintain an over-representative proportion of sapling diversity in its proximity (i.e., being a diversity accumulator).

Further, we might expect that estimates of the accuracy of physical examination tests that are restricted to patients who ultimately undergo surgical treatment are overly optimistic since the sample is made up of a non-representative proportion of (perhaps) more severely affected individuals.

The NESARC sample size was chosen to be sufficiently large to produce nationally representative proportions for the study of substance abuse and dependence and mental disorders by demographic group with CIs equal to or smaller than extant studies.