It was decided that excluding youngsters with any history of disorder would create anunrepresentativesample.From theCambridge English Corpus
It seemed possible that restricting the study to children who never committed case errors led to anunrepresentativesample of children.From theCambridge English Corpus
Most studies to date have modelled the cost of care from small orunrepresentativesamples.From theCambridge English Corpus
Inconclusive studies covered diverse interventions and were characterised by poor reporting, weak study design, high attrition rates, and small orunrepresentativesamples.From theCambridge English Corpus
These predominantly involved children and young adults - a veryunrepresentativesample.From theCambridge English Corpus
Interviewees are likely to be unusually confident, andunrepresentative, though they may include severely impaired people.From theCambridge English Corpus
During the establishment of these populations, bottlenecks and the effects of genetic drift may result inunrepresentativegenotypic distributions and loss of variation.From theCambridge English Corpus
Although the four well-studied cetacean species are socially diverse, they are likely to beunrepresentativeof all cetaceans.From theCambridge English Corpus
How could they decide that the distribution of power in campaign finance wasunrepresentativeof the distribution of power among groups in the society generally?From theCambridge English Corpus
Second, if the data that are used areunrepresentativeof the target language, it may not help with prediction.From theCambridge English Corpus
Selective attrition can produce changes in the subject pool so that it inadvertently becomesunrepresentativeof the subjects originally entered into the study.From theCambridge English Corpus
This methodology avoids the problems incurred by a chronological sample, which could have resulted inunrepresentativeyears and thus misleading analysis.From theCambridge English Corpus
Therefore, although the results were consistent and showed a theory-driven pattern of relationships, the studied sample may have been in some way atypical orunrepresentative.From theCambridge English Corpus
It was a qualitative study with a small,unrepresentativesample.From theCambridge English Corpus
The results of these studies may reflect the selection ofunrepresentativesample populations.From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.