Subsequent segmented results will be added into the statistics dataset as statistical sample.
For our purposes, only a statistical sample is required, as behavior patterns of others can be modeled around these samplings of baseline behaviors.
Or is this statistical sample so small as to be meaningless?
NBC executives argue that, as a result of the changed statistical sample, comparisons to last season's ratings are skewed.
In effect, it would be a rolling annual census, but a statistical sample rather than a comprehensive count.
At some point the statistical sample size has to get large enough that even in the apparent phony war period after a World Cup the results do matter.
Time is short and statistical sample sizes are small, discouraging serious analysis.
The sum of two postseasons is still a relatively small statistical sample.
Pollsters say it is almost impossible to develop a statistical sample that properly matches the group of people who will actually turn up at their neighborhood caucuses on Monday night.
Unlike the monthly jobs report — which reports only net changes in employment — the quarterly numbers are not based on a statistical sample intended to approximate the entire job market.
Although the interviewees do not constitute a statistical sample, the racial makeup of the group, two-thirds black, was similar to that of the pre-hurricane population of the city.
