Sentences with phrase «grand means»

Except for age, race and gender, all time - invariant continuous variables such as education, number of living children, and number of times married were grand mean centered to enhance the interpretability of findings.

If the legacy of Final Fantasy VII has been one of dealing with the tragedy and emotional rawness of losing someone, and then finding grand meaning in that, then maybe it's time for us to shift perspectives.

On the TFQ, participants consistently agreed with positive statements about team functioning (93 % overall; grand mean = 4.60), with agreement on each of the 14 items above 90 % (item means ranged from 4.47 to 4.74).

All continuous variables were added grand mean - centered and all dichotomous variables dummy - coded to the model.

Under Desmarais's stewardship it took on grander meaning.

Religion is concerned with the search for a metaphysical «Truth» — an esoteric, ethereal «grand meaning» to life, the universe and everything.

On a literal level, the line resonates with the plot of Ready Player One quite well: the key to solving Halliday's challenge is to look through a grand adventure or idea to the core, and see the grand meaning in small details of his life.

A lot of message movies in this category, yet I choose the clever lark with no grander meaning outside of itself.

Mediocre fixtures, basic instrumentation, and a price tag of nearly 40 grand mean you don't get a whole lot of bang for your Buick buck.

Additional Level 2 predictors (sex, race, age, length of time on ESRD treatment, length of time married, number of own health conditions; last four variables all grand mean centered) were assessed.

All predictors were group - centered, meaning that effects are modeled using each individual participant's mean rather than a grand mean, which gives us greater confidence that any effects found will not be attributable to influential scores and give us a better picture of processes that might give rise to certain forgiveness attitudes.

MBC and FBC were centered by subtracting the grand mean from the value for each participant (i.e., MBC [centered] = MBC - 4.29; FBC [centered] = FBC - 4.07).

All continuous variables were grand mean - centered, and all categorical variables were effect - coded (− 1, 1) before entering them in the models.

Here, γ00 represents the grand mean of the initial status, and γ10 represents the mean of all the slopes of an individual.