Sentences with phrase «arbitrary cutoff»

The quintile normalized data were analyzed to identify genes with significantly up - or down - regulated expression (FDR p - value < 0.05) with an arbitrary cutoff of at least a two-fold change.

«Current approaches to diagnosing ADHD depend on a somewhat arbitrary cutoff point for the number of symptoms.»

That's one reason I believe we should stop calling it «extended breastfeeding» when mothers and children mutually decide to nurse beyond some arbitrary cutoff, and just label all nursing as such, regardless of the nursing child's age.

It just seemed like such an arbitrary cutoff, and I've been around toddlers I knew that one minute they can seem like such a big kid and the next, like such a baby.We had a very rough start with breastfeeding, but giving up was not an option for me.

I'm using three games back as the cutoff point because, well, there has to be some arbitrary cutoff point.

Image processing was performed by using Medical Image Display and Analysis Software.15 Brains were spatially normalized into Montreal Neurological Institute 305 atlas space16 with a 6 - df registration (3 translations, 3 rotations) to reduce the variability in landmark - derived arbitrary cutoffs used in the segmentation protocols.

The use of arbitrary cutoffs to define abnormality does not correlate with response to therapy.

Not exact matches

But it's also why partial disclosures like Ontario's Sunshine List are failures: they don't go far enough, fostering us - vs - them divisions based on picking an arbitrary salary cutoff.

It would be cruel and unusual to kick her off the breast just because of some arbitrary ideal nursing cutoff age society has come up with.

Any cutoff is going to be arbitrary and disproportionately hurt one side or the other, since someone has to be in office at the time.

That translates to a difference of 31.2 %, which led to a p - value of 0.04, just below the arbitrary but widely used statistically significant cutoff of 0.05.

This cutoff is somewhat arbitrary but this level of differentiation is expected to be much larger than the background levels of differentiation between subspecies observed throughout the genome (see Results and Discussion).

Researchers William R. Powell and C.G. Dunkeld, as early as 1971, said that the 95 percent — cutoff was too high; and, more recently, academic Juliet Halladay condemned it as «somewhat arbitrary.»

«The cutoff score was essentially arbitrary in terms of academic performance on a national scale,» one of the partners in the UNHCR meeting realized.

An arbitrary population cutoff was set at 1,000, which means that any Delaware town or city with a population below 1,000 was removed from consideration.

For this particular study, an arbitrary population cutoff was set at 1,000, meaning any town or city with a population below 1,000 was eliminated from further analysis.

An arbitrary population cutoff was established at 3,000, meaning any town or city in Massachusetts that had a population below that number was eliminated from further analysis.

... My Nexis search found that 36 articles using that phrase appeared in major world publications prior to my arbitrary June 1985 search cutoff.

Part of that is due to simple time - of - day cutoffs, but since the 400 level is somewhat arbitrary anyway, it's a quibble.