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Data are weighted to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the state's registered voter population according to Census figures.
Likely Voters: How Statewide Pollsters Choose Them The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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But our press sample's surprisingly sluggish data-network performance prevents me from endorsing its gaming and streaming multimedia prowess.
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Data are weighted to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the state's registered voter population according to Census figures.
Likely Voters: How Statewide Pollsters Choose Them The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The 39th Ave folks need to weight the validity multiplier by the sample size, giving roughly twice as much weight to the first sample's validity rate, which would make the Chavez folks have more than 2500.
Did Chávez Boulevard group submit enough signatures? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Perriello's team criticized the poll's methodology, particularly the relatively small number of undecided respondents and the sample's partisan breakdown, and campaign manager Lise Clavel alleged that "SurveyUSA's polls are useless."
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By drilling down to a particular layer, the oxygen isotopes in a core sample's air bubbles will tell you the global temperature for the time that the air was trapped in snowflakes.
Antarctic ice reveals trapped secrets of climate change Robin McKie 2010
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And while we're at it: The sample's partisan distribution was 37% Democrats, 29% Republicans, 27% independents.
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At YSL, customers were treated to sample's of their newest fragrance, Parisienne.
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Turned out he was misapplying a (correct) intuition relating a sample's significance to the square root of its size.
TPM Track Composite: Obama's Big Lead Inches Up Yet Again 2009
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FWIW, a sample's MoE is inversely proportional to the square root of its size.
TPM Track Composite: Obama's Big Lead Inches Up Yet Again 2009
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