First, variability at 1 ; 8 was typically more evident in proportions of tokens than in proportions of types.
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The proportions do not sum to 1n0 since the odd, other, and ambiguous categories are not represented here.
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All results are reported as proportions of the total number of responses produced for a given age and condition.
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In fact the proportions of incomers were very similar in 1881 to what they had been in 1851, and probably long before that.
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Thus, the sample proportions were based on the known population proportions.
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We first compare the proportions of people who choose each schooling level.
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As long as two sectors coexist, the demand for labor from the modern sector determines the population proportions of wage earners and subsisters.
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Inputs must always be combined in fixed proportions.
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The hypothesis testing for proportions was the chi-squared test.
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By expressing as absolute difference, power grows quite fast when sample proportions are smaller than expected.
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In the case of a proportional at small sample proportions, the power to establish noninferiority remains low.
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We have shown that outcome proportions and influence the overall power of the study to infer noninferiority.
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By expressing as absolute deviation, the power grows quite fast when sample proportions are smaller than expected.
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The current article is aimed at cost-minimization studies, where the clinical outcome is expressed in a dichotomous primary variable (proportions).
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Utilization, pushing and debarking are recorded as proportions of the total within each category.
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alarming proportion
That is an alarming proportion, considering that the total number of working divers is about 950.
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astronomical proportions
I fear that the rates will reach astronomical proportions.
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catastrophic proportions
Fires broke out soon after the earthquake at midday, magnifying the disaster to catastrophic proportions and claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people.
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