Report data mismatch issue with Data Export API !!!

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Name of affected component: Data Export API

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Issue summary:
We have an issue with the data retrieved using Data Export API. The report data 
is not matching with the data from Data Feed explorer 
(http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html) and 
Google Analytic interface as well.

We got some clue about data mismatch from Google documentation that the data 
might be getting sampled. But with debugging our code, we are getting 
containsSampledData value as false in Xml document response from Export API. 
According to Google documentation, they mentioned that  "Google Analytics 
calculates certain combinations of metrics and dimensions on the fly and to 
return the data in a reasonable time, it processes only sampled data.".  We are 
filtering the data with the dimension "ga:adDistributionNetwork".

Question 1: Can anybody let us know what are those certain combinations of 
dimensions and metrics which may lead to sampling?
Question 2: Even if we get containsSampledData value as false in the xml 
response the data is showing incorrectly. What might be the reason for this 
issue?

Please shed some light on this issue.

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Actual results:
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by sbga.2...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2011 at 10:56

AbdFatah / analytics-issues

Report data mismatch issue with Data Export API !!! #160