The phrase "yielding a sample of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used when describing a process or experiment that produces a small portion of something for analysis or testing. Example: "The chemical reaction was successful, yielding a sample of the desired compound for further study."
For each treatment, managers are queried about their use of forecasting characteristics, yielding a sample of 118 firms.
For IFO prices, the data set used in our study consists of weekly IFO prices in Singapore covering the period from Jan 12th , 1990 to June 26th , 2015yielding a sample of 1325 observations.
The entire accessible collecting area of the solid-state nuclear-track detector (SSNTD) array has been scanned for actinides, yielding a sample of thirty from an exposure of ≈150 m2 sr yr.
We also excluded children who could not hear 35dB or above with the better ear, thereby yielding a sample of 312 twin pairs.
At each centre, a random sample of inhabitants was drawn, yielding a sample of 10,567 institutionalised persons.
To estimate a distribution of the misclassification rate, for each of the 1000 data sets the classifiers were trained and tested, yielding a sample of misclassification rates.
Considering that the sample is clustered by school and class, a design effect of 3 was used (a previous survey with students in Rio de Janeiro indicated a design effect for body mass index of 2.87), yielding a sample size of 4,425 adolescents.
The study primarily aimed to estimate the MID and sample size calculation was based on being able to detect a MID of 0.50 × SD, yielding a sample size of 260 patients.
The sample was chosen by means of accidental (non-probability) sampling, yielding a sample size of n = 259 with an α risk = 0.05 for a precision of 5%.
We expect a drop-out rate of 50% and therefore another 108 patients must be included yielding a sample size of 216 patients.
Assuming an average of 15 patients per primary care centre then a rough approximation of design factor with intracluster coefficient = 0·01 is 1·14 yielding a sample size of 118 controls and 235 intervention groups.
