The sample included a sliver of the long-dead woman's tibia.
The research sample included a total of 146 undergraduate students from two different departments.
And the sample included a greater percentage of people over 55 than are in the general population, and a substantially higher percentage of women.
Each sample included a spiked-in internal quality control peptide standard (375 fmol Peptide Retention Calibration Mix; Pierce, hereafter referred to as "QC").
Characteristics of the sample included a mean age of 56.3 years (SD, 12.4 years), 88.9% African-American, and 56.3% male, and 59.3% had a history of acute myocardial infarction.
However, our sample included a variety of EDs from every region in the country, suggesting reasonable representativeness.
This sample included a total of 330 probationers in Dallas, TX (N = 188) and Baltimore, MD (N = 142).
This sample included a group of children with substantial expressive language problems, mainly from low- to mid-SES Brazilian families.
Whilst Vitality insist that their sample included a wide cross section of society, the fact that it was solely made up of people with private health insurance does suggest that the more disadvantaged were not among them.
These results suggest that if my sample included a wider range of ages, the estimates of the standard deviation of family innovations would be lower.
We recognise that our sample included a high proportion of males, operating IT based online businesses, which is likely to have arisen due to the cultural similarity to the lead interviewer.
