The phrase "a consecutive variable" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a mathematical or statistical context, but it is not a commonly recognized term.
Example: "In our analysis, we will consider a consecutive variable to track changes over time."
Alternatives: "a sequential variable" or "an ordered variable".
Number of side effects and all other categorisations of side effects (haematological and nonhaematological, WHO grade >2 and WHO grade ⩽2) as well as number of tumour sites are modelled as linear factors in logistic regression analyses, implying a constant odds ratio between consecutive variable values.
The IHC scores (consecutive variable) were obtained through the TMAJ software, with a median score of 14.83 (range: 0.49 96.67).
Sites found by eye were chosen to be at least 15 nucleotides long and contain fewer than 3 consecutive variable bases and at least 10 nucleotides that were strictly conserved in more than 97% of sequences.
Consecutive variables were expressed as means ± SD.
These are then strung in together to form a consecutive video stream with variable bit rates.
The trend test for ordinal variables was performed by modeling as a continuous variable with a consecutive integer scores assigned to each category.
To assure anonymity data were collected and recorded using two different files: one included demographic variables and the other one clinical variables linked by a consecutive record number.
The variable year was defined as a consecutive 12-month period from January 1st to December 31st; thus, there were three categories for year (2007, 2008, and 2009).
We examined the influence of these variables on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for a consecutive series of primary hip replacements using National Joint Registry NJRR) and PROMs-linked data.
Moreover, a smooth transition (in terms of decision variables) is desirable when having a transition from a scenario from one time horizon to a consecutive time horizon.
