Sentence examples for samples rather than a from inspiring English sources

In addition to ending the custom of publishers and authors dissembling about less-than-stellar sales, Bookscan could challenge established best-seller lists, which are based on statistical samples rather than a numerical count.

This difference probably represents the natural variation of cacao beans and powder samples rather than a systematic error in either of the analytical procedures.

Comparison of denudation rates from soil-mantled upland obtained from single samples, rather than a depth profile, with basin-scale averaged rates has been previously performed in the Oregon Coast Range (Heimsath et al. 2001a), Australian southeastern highlands (Heimsath et al. 2001b, 2006), and German Black Forest (Meyer et al. 2010).

Given the set of known SNVs and the SNV annotations, soft filtering using the variant quality score recalibration function of GATK employs a variational Bayes Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to estimate the probability that each called variant is a true variant in the samples rather than a sequencer, alignment or data processing artifact (DePristo et al., 2011 ).

With this setting, the estimated TM should be considered as an empirical parameter used for comparison of the rate of the decay due to interaction with paramagnetic heme bL in different samples, rather than a description of a true phase memory time.

CDC now reports 226 confirmed U.S. cases and 30 hospitalizations, a dramatic increase from yesterday that she said reflects that health officials are catching up with the backlog of samples rather than an increase in the disease's spread or its severity.

These results also further highlight the fact that absence of clear individually associated loci in current GWAS of ADHD reflects inadequate power of the GWAS samples, rather than an absence of common susceptibility variants.

In effect, it would be a rolling annual census, but a statistical sample rather than a comprehensive count.

The inaugural installation, "Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan," a sampler rather than a thematic slice, makes the Met's priorities clear.

Curators at MoMA need not worry: The inaugural installation (a sampler rather than a thematic slice) is dominated by white, mostly male Europeans and heavily weighted with references to history and landscape painting.

This was more a convenience sample rather than a stratified scientific sample, a limitation of this study.