11 Since 1973, the SEER Program has expanded several times to improve representative sampling of minority groups as well as to increase the total sampling of cases to allow for greater precision.
This project compiled the largest sample of minorities of any published, clinically reviewed ALS research study to date.
However, since this analysis used the largest sample of minorities with ALS to date, the finding is likely due to one, or a combination, of the behavioral, environmental, and genetic factors of ALS.
To better understand the role that race and ethnicity may have on disease and lifestyle management, the mailing for the 2007 survey was increased with a targeted sample of minorities (African-Americans and Hispanics).
The purpose of this study is to understand from a sample of minority patients the types of problems encountered during healing and the level of information regarding elements of postoperative instructions they recalled receiving at an inner-city safety net hospital.
The children were recruited from economically distressed neighborhoods surrounding 17 community centers managed by the City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department (HPARD) to make sure we had a representative sample of minority children living in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area.
To account for the over-sampling of minorities in NHANES-III, we applied the appropriate sampling weights for this unadjusted analysis.
The inner working procedure of both ROS and RUS, which is based on the sampling of the minority versus majority class, allows them to be scalable approaches.
While many approaches exist for over and under sampling [51], simple over sampling of the minority (scores 1 and 5) by 50%% and under sampling the majority by 30%% (score 3) proved sufficient.
We also drop North Dakota and Wyoming due to small sample sizes of minority SAT test takers10.
Due to the small sample size of minority groups, we restricted analyses to Caucasians.
